Or so it would seem to many
We have commercial closed source - were all grown up enough now to not accept this form of control and deceit in our society.
We have GPL code - good as it's open but bad in certain circumstance's.
i.e
You need to develop something in your own time and therefor money. You decide to sell the code for a while to recoup expenses etc. You cant use GPL code to do this. Big problem.
I suggest we have a time limited OK here and basically allow use of GPL code in ANY software system, but after a period of say 12-18 months all the codebase becomes GPL.
Time limited commercialisation to allow innovation - it would work.
BSD is different - it can be used form almost everything but commercial companies steal such code and use it and close it up. That's useless, although for now single developer's would use this in a way as described above.
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Sunday, January 22, 2006
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