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Wow you completely missed the point. I work at a startup that sells 100% open source products. We use a mixture of BSD, LGPL, GPL and EPL licenses depending on
by krschultz 18y ago
Wow you completely missed the point. I work at a startup that sells 100% open source products. We use a mixture of BSD, LGPL, GPL and EPL licenses depending on products. I have to say that BSD makes a lot more sense when you are selling to businesses. We have never had anyone take code closed on us, but we have found much more acceptance in B2B sales with using a BSD license rather than a GPL license. For us, it is a matter of survival to not use the GPL. And then the main code base moves forward with our paid developers doing about 70% of the work and the community doing 30%.
On the other hand, if your primary concern is starting a project with no intention to sell it, I would go with the GPL to prevent a company from shanking your idea. But as an open source company, BSD is the way to go if you are selling to business.