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. Nicolas [*] More precisely, I asked my university for permission to use either GPL or BSD, and then had the choice. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
