Nicolas Neuss <lastn...@kit.edu> writes: > David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > >> It does not get you "anything additional", but it gets you something >> _less_: a proprietary product that uses your own code to draw your >> user base away from you. > > This is quite understandable - I would not really like seeing Microsoft > use my code. > > However, when I was in search for a license for code of mine -Femlisp, > a PDE solver written in Common Lisp- I stood before the question which > license to choose[*]. A commercial license did not make much sense, > because the code was (and is) not yet commercially valuable. However, > I wanted to retain at least some possibility of providing enhanced > value (in the form of additional features) within a commercial > setting. A GPL license would make this business model impossible for > everyone - _including me_ as soon as other people would start > contributing relevant portions of code under the GPL. > > Therefore, I decided in favor of the (modified) BSD license.
That does not keep other people from contributing relevant portions of code under the GPL, if they so desire. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
