Yeah ... like the complete BSD-licensed TCP/IP stack that is allegedly
contained in every version of Windoze to come out of Redmond ... the BSD
license is certainly better for SOME, but for the COMMUNITY the GPLv2 is
hard to beat (not so sure about v3 here, either).
Jim Hartley
Steve Litt wrote:
> Depends what you want to do with it. In my opinion, if you want to recruit
> lots of people to work on your project, GPL (version 2 -- V3 is still under
> discussion) is the best way to go. If you want to take it and make a
> modification that will be part of something you can sell and excercise
> "intellectual property" over, BSD and several others might be better.
>
> SteveT
>
> On Tuesday 14 November 2006 09:23 am, Jim Hartley wrote:
>
>> It says they are using the GPL ... what's better than that?
>>
>> Chad Perrin wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:58PM -0500, tom smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think that this move will be a boost for java apps. Too bad Sun did
>>>> not do it sooner.
>>>> Smitty
>>>> http://news.lycos.com/dynamic/stories/S/SUN_JAVA_OPEN_SOURCE?SITE=LYCOS&
>>>> SECTION=TECHNOLOGY&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-11-13-00-26-47
>>>>
>>> Too bad Sun did not use a better license.
>>>
>
>
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