John Hoffoss wrote: > > The only guy I know and talked to uses BSD as the base for their > products (and this is not a small embedded company) *exactly* because > of the GPL and license requirements to distribute source code. > > That would be my choice too, but only if code sharing was a problem. That's why we have more than one FOSS license. The GPL isn't perfect, and doesn't always fit the bill, so to speak. In a perfect world, everyone could use the GPL, but the corporate culture and mindset is far from utopian - and the BSD license is a reasonable compromise. If I have my choice, I'd pick the GPL over the BSD because the GPL stipulates that you have to give something back. The BSD is very practical, but changes don't have to be shared, and this leads to the proprietary mindset most of us would rather avoid. The BSD crowd, though love to share ideas with everyone, as well as code - much to their credit. There are those though (again, my opinion) who abuse their work, by making derivatives solely proprietary. T.J. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: tj.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 117 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070223/aa8346e9/attachment.vcf