Re: Forbes article on "GPL hit men" mentions PostgreSQL

Christopher Browne wrote:

> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com (Josh Berkus) wrote:
>
>>Also, don't ya love how Forbes attacks the FSF for license enforcement, but
>>seems to accept the BSA's tactics as normal?
>
>
> Indeed. Apparently what is moral for the goose is not moral for the
> gander (or the FSF).
>
> The problem in this situation is that Cisco (/LinkSys) have adopted
> code for their systems, and been cavalier about licensing.
>
> The notion that there was any "trickery" involved should be put away.
>
> These companies retain lawyers; they presumably pass on licenses to
> their legal departments when that situation comes up, except that they
> apparently weren't careful at least in this case.

I agree. Recently a codeveloper asked me aboutusing a GPL java lib. in a
commercial project. I could advice him to persuade the author to release it
under LGPL.

It is right of authors to choose the license. And I doubt GPL contains anything
that prohibits using it in a commercial product, especially when LGPL exists.

And yes, let's not start BSD against GPL war. Let people choose what they want.
Both the licenses have their place. Thats the only truth out there..:-)

Shridhar