Jeff Balogh wrote:
...
Please don't confuse "copyleft" with "non-commercial" or
"non-corporate". No open source licence has any restriction on using the
code "in a corporate setting".
I haven't experienced it firsthand, but from what I hear on the
internet, many corporate environments avoid copyleft because they fear
the viral license. The license itself doesn't preclude commercial
usage, but the untested implications are enough to rule out copyleft
code.
Use of GPL or LGPL is not such a big issue in corporations I am familiar
with (IBM and HP). Redistribution is completely another matter.
Developers, because they may someday work on product code, generally
avoid messing with GPL source. I am able to work on Firebug because it
is BSD; I'm not sure I have enough patience to talk with lawyers about
MPL; I'm sure I don't for GPL.
jjb
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