Andy> In another project (guess which), we got so tired of all that
Andy> strange restrictions (L)GPL imposed and the reservations some
Andy> groups (BSD people especially) had against it, that we
Andy> entierely switched to MIT style, with the explicit comment,
Andy> that you may relicense it to (L)GPL as you like.
With all the problems GPL may have, resorting to a license as weak as
MIT or BSD is a very bad idea, IMHO. The BSD-style licenses have
amply proven that you _have_ to put in a requirement that
modifications to sources remain open. Otherwise companies will start
to siphon off the software, make proprietary "enhancements" to it, and
you'll get a fracturing of the market like we have it with proprietary
UNIXes these days. In the end, it's so fractured and incompatible
that nobody cares for it anymore.
--david
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