From: | teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind=?iso-8859-1?q?_Glomsr=F8d?=) |
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Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] proposed improvements to PostgreSQL license |
Date: | 2000-07-03 21:51:46 |
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Ned Lilly <ned(at)greatbridge(dot)com> writes:
> We've also found, through some rather extensive market
> research, that the business community (to which we'll be selling
> products and services) vastly prefers it over GPL, or hybrids like
> Mozilla, etc.
That depends on what your market is - for businesses who wants to be
able to hide source, yes. For businesses who use it, being sure the
source is available is the best - which the GPL guarantees. BSD gives
the middle man more freedom to screw the end user ;)
> What we'd like to propose is a general tightening up of what the
> existing license is *supposed* to be doing in the first place -
> protecting the developers who worked on the code, and ensuring that
> the code stays open source in perpetuity.
GPL would solve this - the main advantage of BSDish licenses is you
can go closed source if you want to.
Now, I don't advocate a change in license - my main consern is "there
are enough licenses in the world". I think the "each package one
license" is a bad trend.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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