Jan Niklas Fingerle wrote: > 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 ... I didn't want to enter the fray, but ... Jan, IMHO the difference is not that Linux is well known. It's that most companies using Linux, even if they have some employees that end up hacking it here or there for the companies' own use, do not intend to become Linux distributors or to start their own Linux fork. OTOH, with libraries and smaller application software, the possibility of improving them and maybe even trying to make a buck with them is a realistic consideration, even if the company isn't directly in the software business.
Trac was released under the GPL prior to 0.9, but they chose to change to a modified BSD (and most of these arguments were discussed in their mailing list at the time the change was considered). I'd say it was already fairly well known at the time, but I believe (anecdotally) that it's done even better since then. Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
