About the calculus for the project
About the calculus for the project
Posted Feb 3, 2012 18:53 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)In reply to: About the calculus for the project by fb
Parent article: A tempest in a toybox
> People may campaign and cheer the (L)GPLv[23] as much as they wish, but the *reality* today is that many companies will -for whatever reasons- simply not touch anything with GPL on it.
There is certainly some outreach that should continue to be done, sometimes the GPL is rejected because of fear and misunderstanding of what the license actually says and means. I get the sense that the Android core developers have some funny ideas about how the GPL works. Other companies prefer to contribute to GPL projects rather than BSD because the reciprocity means that they are always on a level competitive playing field. Very few business would be comfortable with all of their hard work feeding in a one-way direction to their largest competitor.