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There are plenty of incentives to share. They can be summarized by this: Code that you don't share is code that you have to maintain yourself. Code that you sha
by yxhuvud 13y ago
There are plenty of incentives to share. They can be summarized by this: Code that you don't share is code that you have to maintain yourself. Code that you share is code that you can offload the maintaining to someone else.
- Spooky23 13y agoI agree. But offload != collaboration. With BSD, there is no legal incentive for somebody to take their ball and go home, or take your ball and sell it. Depending on what you want, that can be a good thing. Making commercialization difficult is not always bad -- if you own the copyrights, you can license to commercial users under terms favorable to you.
- einhverfr 13y agoAlso I don't think the BSD license makes it harder to commercialize software than the GPL does. You can't have a dual license model without the GPL, and that also requires copyright assignments. And once you do that, you are controlling not whether the software can be commercialized but merely who can commercialize it.