At 11:10 PM 11/25/2001, Matt Sergeant wrote: >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.
Why not?
