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[Tracy Reed]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 02:40:21PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski spake thusly:
> I'm going to make you back that up.  I seriously doubt that the GPL
> is that much more popular than the BSD and BSD-alike (MIT, Apache,
> X, etc.) licenses in toto.

http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss/licenses/

Even if you add up BSD, MIT, Apache and any other license you choose
it isn't as much as BSD.

> In addition, businesses are banning GPL code use more and more.  I
> agree with them.  This is simply pragmatic.  The GPL forces me to
> *care* about the license and think about compliance.  That's money.

Not that I have noticed. MS EULA and any other proprietary license
requires even more attention to be paid to license and they aren't
getting banned.

> Therefore, I will *NEVER* use GPL code in something that might
> eventually go outside the company.  BSD doesn't make me think or
> spend money.

That's understandable if you want to lock up your users, which many
companies do. Not really much of an argument against the GPL though.

-- 
Tracy Reed
http://tracyreed.org
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