On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 06:04:30PM +0800, Andy Sy wrote: > However, the extreme viral nature of the GPL is still a turn-off or > too much of a risk to many companies who would rather work with an > MPL- or BSD- style license.
OTOH you have companies like SGI that explicitly GPL'd their product (XFS), and haven't gone with a more liberal license like MPL or BSD, because they need the viral nature of the GPL to protect themselves. They cannot risk allowing their competitors to "steal" their work, or at least not without the competitor having to open up their products, too, if they decide to sell things in a bundle. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
