Hi Simon, On 13/04/12 19:36, Simon Holywell wrote: > Agreed. I over simplified in a bid to type less on this puny phone. What > I am saying is that if you licence under GPL then you reduce adoption. > Here are a couple of examples: > > Want to resell a CMS that includes ExtJs (this is where GPL can hurt > free software and be weaponized by asking for a commercial licence) on > its GPL licence. See Pimcore. > > Want to include a lib in a PHP extension (in this case it hampers even > opensource, but lets not go down the free software vs open source route).
I'm struggling to understand your point. If you want adoption of a CMS, let's consider the two most widely adopted CMSs out there by a staggering margin: Wordpress and Drupal. Guess what: they're both GPL licensed. I know a lot of people making a very nice living (and building successful businesses on) providing services on for those two platforms. Another example of successful GPL licensed product is Linux. Doesn't seem to have inhibited its uptake particularly. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Lane, Egressive Ltd [email protected] m +64212298147 p +6439633733 http://egressive.com Free/OpenSourceSoftware: because to share is human Drupal powers communities: http://drupal.org Use Open Standards: w3.org Software Patents kill innovation -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
