Hi Dave, Wordpress and Drupal are not, generally, used as libs - at least I hope not, yikes!
Thanks, Simon On 13 April 2012 08:44, Dave Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On 13/04/12 19:36, Simon Holywell wrote: > > Agreed. I over simplified in a bid to type less on this puny phone. What > > I am saying is that if you licence under GPL then you reduce adoption. > > Here are a couple of examples: > > > > Want to resell a CMS that includes ExtJs (this is where GPL can hurt > > free software and be weaponized by asking for a commercial licence) on > > its GPL licence. See Pimcore. > > > > Want to include a lib in a PHP extension (in this case it hampers even > > opensource, but lets not go down the free software vs open source route). > > I'm struggling to understand your point. If you want adoption of a CMS, > let's consider the two most widely adopted CMSs out there by a > staggering margin: Wordpress and Drupal. Guess what: they're both GPL > licensed. I know a lot of people making a very nice living (and building > successful businesses on) providing services on for those two platforms. > Another example of successful GPL licensed product is Linux. Doesn't > seem to have inhibited its uptake particularly. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > -- > Dave Lane, Egressive Ltd [email protected] m +64212298147 p +6439633733 > http://egressive.com Free/OpenSourceSoftware: because to share is human > Drupal powers communities: http://drupal.org Use Open Standards: w3.org > Software Patents kill innovation > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > -- Simon Holywell simonholywell.com fulloctane.com -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
