Crowding out OpenBSD

Crowding out OpenBSD

Posted Nov 14, 2012 16:52 UTC (Wed) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: Crowding out OpenBSD by marcH
Parent article: Crowding out OpenBSD

I'm not sure that companies do prefer BSD licensing. BSD licensing is great if your goal is to make something popular to gain networking effects (e.g. media codecs) or if you're a big player and want to be able to build proprietary systems off the code base. But the GPL seems to be better for the case where you have lots of companies involved, none of which is big enough to dominate the market. The enforced share and share alike provisions of the GPL give companies the reassurance that they aren't going to be taken advantage of by a competitor who uses their contributions while keeping their own improvements proprietary.

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