On 09/11/11 04:50, Platonides wrote: > On 08/11/11 02:52, Olivier Beaton wrote: >> What do I gain by not using gpl? Commercial use and forking under a license >> of your choice. The only thing that concerns me using bsd is how to accept >> contributions that im not merging in safely. Is zend framework concern with >> bsd and their use of a contrib agreement ? >> >> My employer asked me to make modifications to mw for their use, i chose >> instead to spend my free time so i can share them with others. I cant use >> gpl even if i wanted to. > > GPL doesn't preclude commercial usage. > It requires you give others the ability to give the same (freedom) > rights you gave them, but if the extension is going to be published in > our svn, that doesn't seem a problem. > Depending on your employer, you may be able to develop it in company > time releasing the result under a free license (if the collaborative > method results in having a better extension, your company will benefit > from having the FOSS developers improve it, and reduce the time you'll > need to maintain it as a fork).
GPL allows commercial usage, but it is seen by some as being anti-commercial, because of the restriction against integration with a closed-source product. That's why many software projects (e.g. PHP) refuse contributions of GPL code. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
