Hi, Es sprach mike bayer: > the word on the street is that if you want commercial enterprises to > use your software, if theres *anything* remotely GPL-ish about it they > wont go near it...
that must be the reason why no company at all is using linux. Yes you're right, companies can be quite, well, schizophrenic (at least) about licenses: If it's a well-known tool, nobody really cares, but if it's something unknown, the license becomes an issue: I've had an experience, where a MIT'ed project wasn't used because there was nobody that you could _buy_ a license from ... The GPL says "I don't want you to build and distribute a derived work without giving your users the same freedom with your work as I gave you with my work". This can lead to companies not using your work. On the other hand, some companies release their own work under this precise license, because they don't want their work to be lost in other people's proprietary work. Cheers, --Jan Niklas -- Diese Mail habe ich mit SquirrelMail versandt. Sie ist deshalb nicht mit GPG signiert. Eine unsignierte Mail - auch diese - kann prinzipiell sehr leicht gefälscht werden. Bitte prüfe / prüfen Sie daher bei Bedarf durch persönliche Rückfrage o.ä., ob diese Mail tatsächlich von mir stammt. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
