Yigal Chripun wrote:
On 31/03/2009 00:36, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Sure, it is not the only project that is GPL'd, but it is one of the
only GPL'd projects out there that is the basis of a successful company.
I don't really know of any others. So here is a challenge, name 10 of
those companies.
come on.. why did Sun choose the GPL as the basis for almost all it's
products over less restrictive licenses as you say?
Sun's products that are GPL'ed: Java, Netbeans, solaris, etc.. even the
specs for their CPU are open sourced!
that telephony project, asterix (IIRC), provides jobs for many
consultant companies on setting up your own telephony solution based on
that project.
that's just of the top of my head without doing any search...
And notice that they actually used the Classpath Exception so that end
users wouldn't be forced to GPL their products, which would have
basically been a disaster. Makes one wonder why they chose GPL in the
first place if they were just going to neutralize it.
