free software to make sure you're in compliance when selling non-free software [LWN.net]

free software to make sure you're in compliance when selling non-free software

Posted Dec 2, 2009 0:34 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: IP Software Compliance Tools -- Who Needs Them and Why? by imran238
Parent article: IP Software Compliance Tools -- Who Needs Them and Why?

Can you think of an instance where a developer might feel sufficiently itchy about licence compliance as to develop such a tool, and be inclined then to release it under a free licence?

Me neither.

If you have a perceived need for such a tool, a priori it would seem that you aren't ideologically committed to extending the free-software ecosystem.

So asking for the tool to be free seems a bit rich.

Talk to the vendors mentioned in the article, and see what sort of licence they're prepared to sell you.

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