On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:06:23PM -0500, 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.
The GPL is certainly useful, so far, for recruiting people to work on
your project. On the other hand, it's going to get increasingly
difficult to find people willing to start new projects based on
something created by someone else with the GPL, I think. The legal
minefield the GPL represents for people without much money to devote
will prove problematic for people who just want to distribute something
new that is based on something old.
The only reason the creators can really afford to do it legally when
they don't have money is because the GPL doesn't apply to the copyright
holder who first licenses it out.
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