On Monday 05 November 2007 22:16:03 Jeffrey Thomas wrote: > >Why did you pick the Apache v2 open source license? > > Correct, its a developer-friendly licenses, as they put it. I prefer the > GPL because its a USER-friendly license.
Let's not forget the group of users who were pretty vocal of the advantages of OpenMoko NOT being completely GPL (i.e. having commercial apps on/linking to it or it's toolkit). These folks said that they prefer OpenMoko to Qtopia BECAUSE it did not require them to put their own software under the GPL. These will be the users who want skin-deep freedom (=freedom for me, not freedom all users), and that are likely to jump ship. The tough question is how big this group actually is in the OpenMoko camp. OTOH, OpenMoko might actually benefit from this, as this also means more OSS exposure to the general public (even if somewhat skewed by large companies). There are two reasons a company goes the apache/BSD license way - they don't want to give back anything to the OSS community OR they do not want to be bothered with license issues, Google being in the latter group in my impression. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
