On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > > 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. > > In many cases the alternative is to write the thing in-house in a less reusable way, without unit-test but with more bugs. > > 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. > So the developer will say: OK I know the company does not want me to use GPL code so let me just check it out to see if it would work even though though I was told they cannot use it. > Oh, and there are certainly other industries: > Luckily there are already Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/
_______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
