"Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, the GPL exception in CUPS for Apple only, of which I have > recently also complained. :-)
This is what I was talking about with the 'gpl enables new business models' - apple let the main cups developers 'cash out' (thus encouraging other people to write cool and useful open-source software, or even perhaps encouraging businesses to pay people to write cool and useful open-source software in the hopes of cashing out later.) while still giving us (open-source users) access to the fruits of later improvements to those labors. Apple is using the GPL as a tool to open-source code without letting competitors use that code without reciprocation. Personally, I think it's a good thing, because we, the open source community, get Apple to pay people to write code for us. We even get the same license terms. We lose nothing, and we gain another path to getting paid lots of money to write open-source software. Think of how much great software we'd get paid to write if VC started funding startups that wrote and sold dual-licensed GPL software on the "It's free if you like the GPL, but if you want another license that costs money" model? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]