Jess Holle wrote: > > Hmmm.... I'd have to disagree here. One of the critical bits for me as > to whether I follow up on a library/product lead is whether it is open > source and whether it otherwise restricts free commercial use in any > way, including whether it is GPL'ed. I don't care too much about > particulars beyond this -- BSD, Apache License 2.0, etc, even LGPL, are > all "free, unrestricted for commercial use" licenses. Stating the > actual license used is probably faster than any other way of spelling > this out, though.
It is not that I don't care about licensing terms of software products. I do. And I favor Free Software products. However, unless you are making decisions as to whether to include a library as part of your product, I don't believe people care about software licensing as much as they claim they do. And most of us are not making that decision for most of the products. For those of you who claim you care very much about software licenses, here is a quick quiz: Under what licenses are you using (or not using) the following popular Java-ish products? 1. mail.jar 2. asm.jar 3. JRuby 4. Grails 5. JBoss Seam 6. Scala My hunch is that you have to do a little bit of Googling (or reread the license file in the product directory) before you can answer the question completely and accurately (at least for the five other products that you did not write). Considering that the Posses are doing this wonderful podcast on their own time, I do not wish to add the extra work onto their shoulders (work that us listeners can do quite capably). They are busy creating and producing the podcast as it is. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
