On Tuesday 14 November 2006 04:20 pm, Chad Perrin wrote:
> 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.
Chad --
I don't understand the problem. As I understand it, all I need to do is
distribute all my stuff as source code, and if I do so, I've fulfilled my
committments. What am I missing here?
SteveT
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