On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 11:26:34AM -0700, John Locke wrote: > As a commercial company, I prefer releasing code under the GPL instead > of the LGPL (or the Apache or the BSD licenses, etc), simply because it > prevents competitors from taking my code, extending it, and > commercializing it without distributing their enhancements. The GPL > keeps the playing field level, prevents my code from being unfairly used > against me. As far as which version, I don't know enough about v3 to > make an informed decision, so we're sticking to v2 for the time being. I view that argument as a variation on security through obscurity. If another company can take code that you've written and do a better job of selling it than you can then the problem isn't with them, or the license... it's with your company. -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect ..hidden.. Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828
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