On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:01:47AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. My argument still stands. If someone else can support your code better than you can, you've got a serious problem. (My views are my own, etc., etc.) -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect ..hidden.. Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828
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