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My experience differsMy experience differsPosted Jul 2, 2005 12:09 UTC (Sat) by cjcoats (guest, #9833)Parent article: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet) I am the lead on an open source project of relatively narrow interest (I/O and utility libraries and related programs for environmental models -- see http://www.baronams.com/ioapi/), and for that scenario Eric's statement ...They trap themselves unto competing with a small in-house development group against the much larger one in the parent open source project, and failing.is wrong. I have twice had to go up against much larger organizations--US EPA and the University of North Carolina--for license violations. Both of these organizations had tried to distribute "hacked" distributions with the copyright and attributions stripped out. Without the protection of the license, and with their institutional lacks of architectural vision, these organizations would have made a mess of the library the way they have with their own in-house models (CMAQ and SMOKE, respectively) that use this library.
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