Licenses?
Licenses?
Posted Oct 10, 2011 23:39 UTC (Mon) by jra (subscriber, #55261)In reply to: Licenses? by vonbrand
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux
I'm old enough to remember when the GPLv2 was beyond the pale and considered pure evil and communism (which is only a dirty word in the USA, and possibly China :-), no commercial company could *possibly* work with code under such a horrible and business-unfriendly license.
My, how times have changed. The same will happen with GPLv3 (probably after GPLv4 is announced :-)
If you don't trust the creators of the license, who do you trust to maintain it ? Do you think it doesn't need maintenance ? I know several lawyers in proprietary software companies that would disagree with you on that fact.
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