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It's the old "you can catch more flies with honey rather than vinegar". The GPL is the strongest vinegar to businesses that may not mind participating in open
by crusso 15y ago
It's the old "you can catch more flies with honey rather than vinegar".
The GPL is the strongest vinegar to businesses that may not mind participating in open source, but don't want to have their business assets dependent upon something so restrictive.
As a developer you have a trade-off decision to make: Choose the license that restricts the use of your creation in hopes that it forces others to share, or choose a license that may end up being used for private commercial reasons - but will likely be more widely adopted because it's less restrictive.
The beauty of the whole system in my mind is that each developer is free to make his own choice.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoThis is why I use the MPL.
- vy8vWJlco 15y agoNothing wrong with choice. I think it's important that people treat me fairly. That's practicality, IMHO.
- crusso 15y agoI guess. That's kind of the decision that a lot of console or heavy copy protection game producers make: We want to get paid for every copy of our game that is played. Then a lot of no copy protection PC game producers make a different decision: We want as many people as possible to play our game. Some will pirate it and not pay us. We hope that many more will do the right thing and pay for it if they like it.
- vy8vWJlco 15y agoYep. Luckily the sky is rising! :) http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120129/17272817580/sky-is-rising-entertainment-industry-is-large-growing-not-shrinking.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120129/17272817580/sky-is...