On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 01:45:20PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > 2011/4/10 Aviad Mandel <[email protected]> > > > I hope this clarifies why GPL's limitation of distribution is so appealing > > as an evaluation license: It stops the evaluation users exactly at the point > > where they want to really use the software, in embedded terms. And if I'm > > not wrong about the whole idea, a well-polished license like GPLv3 is by far > > better than anything I can come up with, with or without ten lawyers, since > > it's written based upon experience with legal issues worldwide, which I will > > never be able to do. > > > > > I don't know about the legal aspects and I might not know much about the > industry > you are targeting but at some my clients there is a strict "no GPL" policy > while at > others the use of open source (especially GPL) requires the approval of the > legal > department which is complex.
The alternative is not Apache or whatever. The alternative is a complex propritary license. Which has to go through the legal department anyway. > Most developers and their managers try > to avoid it which effectively means using new open source code is difficult. > Even if they are already using a lot of open source tools and code. > > IMHO in most of these cases the GPL license will be a deterrence > from even trying the thing. But this is when the GPL is used in production. Not for evaluation. Oh, and there are certainly other industries: http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/android_tablets/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best [email protected] | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
