Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I am not sure I am convinced by these statements. As a > developer, I fail to see how the GPL helps me any less than the BSD > style licenses do -- unless you assume that all developers want to > squirrel code away and make loads of money off other people's work.
Correction - as an _FOSS_ developer you fail to see that. Would you agree that in the current commercial world, there are more closed source programmers than FOSS ones? GPL-ed libraries are not an option for these people, unless the author agrees to dual-license it. Since in many of the major libraries, there are too many "co-authors", I doubt whether dual licences are an option for these libraries. I do not want to make this into a negative point for GPL. I am just trying to emphasise that GPL has different goals than other licenses. - Sandip _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
