On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 07:32 +0100, Simon Holywell wrote: > Calm down dude or you might end up here: http://xkcd.com/386/ > > Seriously though I hear your call of bollocks. Sounds like GPL works > for you and thats great, but until I see clear legal fact stating it > works generally then I will refrain from agreeing. My primary concern > is with linked libs.
heh, If there was such thing as clear legal fact we wouldn't needing lawyers. Reality is that there are a range of licenses and their suitability varies depending on your business model - to outright dismiss the GPL as being against serious commercial use is a silly statement at best. A company may choose to GPL license a product and make a commercial business around the support, rather than the code (eg, MySQL, RedHat) or they may decide to keep the code propietary and sell boxed software (eg, Microsoft). Both are valid business models, to state that either are unsuitable for serious commercial use is wrong. A more valid statement could be "I am in the business of selling software and the GPL does not suit my business model as I wish to retain control of the right to redistribute my code and profit from that". regards, jethro -- Jethro Carr www.jethrocarr.com www.amberdms.com
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