On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
> This is identical to an interview I read a few weeks ago with SleepyCat
> (the Berkeley DB folks)... As a company, it's in our best interest to use
> an overly aggressive open source
> license that forces commercial entities to buy a less restrictive one. As
> an open source group though who is building a project precisely intended to
> be used in commercial large scale products, then we want a less restrictive
> license and I would argue against GPL.
Actually in many ways, the GPL might be a good thing for P5EE, and if not,
then the LGPL. We certainly don't want entities taking the P5EE stuff,
modifying it, and selling solutions based on modified versions. That would
defeat the purpose. So the LGPL gives us some power over that.
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