On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:44:23 +0200 "Cedric BAIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Jose Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are the reasons people prefer one type of license over another.. > > and does that affect the number or quality of contributors or > > contributions? Again, who knows. I don't like licenses in the software > > world - I think it's abhorrent. But unfortunately, their existance and that > > of patents is very real so both corps and individuals have to make a > > decision. Personally, I'd *never* contribute anything that I'd consider to > > be a truly serious, dedicated, body of time and work to a project that > > wan't LGPL or GPL. But that's just me. > > I can share my experience too on this subject. In my previous company, > it was a problem to contribute code back to a BSD licenced software > (and GPL too). The lawyer and all the intellectual property guys would > forbid us to give back code under this licence. In fact, only LGPL > would have been a solution. That was the reason, why they choose GTK > instead of anything else and without any technical consideration. > To fix this problem, I changed for a smarter company. But that's just me :-) yeah. they sound silly - if they had GPL and LGPL in the same category - fine, but they are being very inconsistent there. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
