Yigal Chripun wrote:
How many companies do you know that use the BSD for their products? BSD is used by universities and non-profit organizations not companies. claiming that BSD > GPL in a corporate environment is simply wrong.
That's not the point. Plenty of companies use open source libraries in their code, even if they don't open source the end product. BSD is friendlier to them because they aren't forced to open up everything that touches it. GPL is viral. Use one GPL library and your whole project is tainted. Philosophically, GPL gives freedom to the end user. BSD leaves freedom with the developer. IMO, the latter is where it should be, as it is the developer who expends the resources to create the product in the first place.
