Re: GPL v3? Other license options?

["Joshua D. Drake" <..hidden..>]

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Decibel! wrote:
> 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.

Or its that the company that took the code has 22 million dollars in VC
that isn't their money in the first place and has a marketing staff that
could tell a sheep that polyester was wool.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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