--- On Fri, 5/14/10, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au>
wrote:
>
> The GPL ensures that once software has entered the commons
> (and therefore
> available for all), it can never be removed from the
> commons. The MIT
> licence does not. Now, you might argue that in practice
> once software is
> released under an MIT licence, it is unlikely to ever
> disappear from the
> commons. Well, perhaps, but if so, that's despite and not
> because of the
> licence.
Why is MIT licensed code any more likely to dispersal from the common that
GPLed code? Does using the GPL somehow grantee that my server will never crash?
>
> In practice, I believe most MIT-licenced code never even
> makes it into
> the commons in the first place. I'm willing to predict that
> the majority
> of code you've written for paying customers (as opposed to
> specifically
> for open source projects) has disappeared into their code
> base, never to
> be seen by anyone outside of the company. Am I right?
Yes, but it was licensed to the client, and never enter into the commons, That
which never enters into the commons can never be removed.
Any MIT licensed code that I may have used is still in the common. My using it
did not reomove it from the common.
Has the fact that Python has been used for many commercial/propitiatory
projects reduced your ability to make use of it? If so how?
-EdK
Ed Keith
e_...@yahoo.com
Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com
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