On a somewhat-related note, this morning's /. has an article about "why the economic crisis will favor FLOSS" from RedHat's CEO:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/21/0116221 No killer insights there, but maybe someone on this list can offer one? (I, personally, should be safe in my Ivory Tower job...) As for your licensing scheme, Bradley: I guess I don't quite see the advantage a BSD license offers. Is it just that it is consistent with the Zend licensing, and that there are no problems if your clients need to, say, link your code with proprietary libraries? Or do you think a BSD license encourages people to contribute to FLOSS more than another license? Richard Bradley Holt wrote: > In an earlier discussion I talked about how I think VAGUE is relevant > and can influence local businesses. As I said before, free/open source > software is something that is very important to me and I think VAGUE is > in a position to be an educator to local businesses on FOSS. Our small > business (four employees) develops web sites and web applications (among > other services). We recently made the decision to license all of our > software that we deliver to clients under the New BSD License - a FOSS > license. > > There are a number of reasons for this decision that I've explained here: > http://bradley-holt.blogspot.com/2008/10/found-line-software-license.html > > Since I made the statement that I think VAGUE is relevant to local > businesses, then I felt it was only right to ask for feedback on this > decision from the VAGUE mailing list ;-) > > So, fire away - what are your thoughts on this idea? > > Thanks, > Bradley > > -- > http://bradley-holt.blogspot.com/
