Garth Wallace wrote:
> MPL is more restrictive than the BSD license but not so much as the GPL,
> AFAICT.
To me, I consider the MPL more open than the GPL license, similar to the BSDL.
Why? Despite Roblimo's article in Open Magazine, the GPL is somewhat contagious.
Mainly in the aspect of never being able to make money from it. Unlike RMS, I
don't see selling software as a sin. There's the idea of service being the
revenue stream, but how do you get a product to support without having someone
make that product? Ok, so you get some capital and hire some programmers and pay
they wages. But what about the small time programmer? Sure, you pay a carpenter
by the hour to come fix your house, but you'd ALSO pay him for a cabinet if you
buy it from him. He would never make money if he gave away the cabinets and just
hoped when they broke people would pay him to fix them.
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