On Wednesday 05 January 2011 03:27 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > >> This >> is not to say that the other people copying/forking /never/ submit >> back -- it >> does happen -- with GPL tho' making it a legal obligation ensures that >> it always >> happens. > not necessarily - a lot of people just do not touch GPL code - they > prefer to contribute code to projects with a more free license.
For the sake of those who have been following this long thread and trying to make some sense out of it, could we have an objective list of Licenses from all participants with their pros and cons listed. If GPL restricts freedom then in what way? If BSD restricts freedom then in what way? Short and simple please. If experts on this list cannot agree on what license is good for software, how do we expect companies to decide on what type of software they will implement on their systems. IMHO, this world has a wide variety of business models, software under different licenses and everyone appears to be making a lot of money and there is nothing that will last forever. Changes are happening all the time and happen to everyone. So lets give everyone the freedom to choose their favorite license and focus on developing software that is most usefull to everyone. -- As a proper list etiquette... Please trim your replies. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Do not re-use old messages to write new ones. Regards, Rony. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
