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> My personal experience with devs who don't want to GPL their code or contribute to GPL projects is that they're under the impression that having a permissive
by twic 4y ago
> My personal experience with devs who don't want to GPL their code or contribute to GPL projects is that they're under the impression that having a permissive license on their own project will get $corp to use it and, somehow, they'll profit from $corp using it.
I don't think i've ever heard someone saying this. Does anyone really believe this? Some concrete examples would be illuminating.
- gampleman 4y agoFor me the logic roughly worked out like this. I managed to get successive employers to "sponsor" (i.e. pay me my normal salary but let me use my work time to work on my open source project) my open source project, because we were using that project at work and it was missing features my employer was interested in. Some of those employers had policies outright prohibiting GPL use...
- LtWorf 4y agoif it was lgpl licensed they'd have no choice but to do that
- gampleman 4y agoNo. They would have simply never adopted the library and most likely not hired me either.
- LtWorf 4y agoas it goes for 99.99999999999% people who release under MIT. And linux (GPL) does have paid developers, and so does webkit (LGPL). Your data is rather meaningless… but I'm happy your statistic that excludes all the data points you dislike proves your theory :)