Re: How to risk your project and your livelihood with sloppy licensing
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 74.94.3.145]
on July 09, 2008 09:45 PM
"Um, actually lots of software developers choose to release BSD-licensed code, which gives anyone the right to resale, modify, profit, whatever."
True, but that doesn't appear to be the case here. It seems there was a stated interest in using the GPL. If they had expressed a stated interest in using BSD but then never got around to it I'd say it would have been a non-issue. I won't try to promote one license over the other but if their intent was to go GPL I can't help but feel some sympathy for them losing control over their code. It's their fault, clearly, but I do sympathize.
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Re: How to risk your project and your livelihood with sloppy licensing
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 74.94.3.145] on July 09, 2008 09:45 PMTrue, but that doesn't appear to be the case here. It seems there was a stated interest in using the GPL. If they had expressed a stated interest in using BSD but then never got around to it I'd say it would have been a non-issue. I won't try to promote one license over the other but if their intent was to go GPL I can't help but feel some sympathy for them losing control over their code. It's their fault, clearly, but I do sympathize.
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