[computer-go] Collaboration project. Once again

[Angel "Java" Lopez]

Hello people!

BSD is great! :-)

Comenting:

> ... so for sure it allows commercial
> competitors to reuse your code with nothing for you.

I think that for a succesful project (for example all the projects in 
http://jakarta.apache.org), this is not a problem. You gain from the 
project, anyone that want to take advantage from it, would have the way full 
of obstacles... or if he/she were succesful, this fact would validate your 
own project, and you would gain in the process....

In my opinion, a BSD-like license is more free...

Angel "Java" Lopez
http://www.ajlopez.com (pardon my English, "me Tarzan.... " :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alain Baeckeroot" <alain.baeckeroot at laposte.net>
To: "computer-go" <computer-go at computer-go.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Collaboration project. Once again


Le jeudi 3 août 2006 03:16, Darren Cook a écrit :

> I'd second Mark's idea to go with a license that is more free than GPL:
> over the years of using, and developing, open source software, I have
> come to have strong views on the importance of a BSD/MIT-like license
> rather than the GPL-virus. (But if you want to argue that let's take it
> private :-).
>

Gogui is GPL so ... using its code would have consequences on your project.
BSD license allowed µsoft to reuse BSD network stack in winNT or win2k
(i dont remember) with no know feedback, so for sure it allows commercial
competitors to reuse your code with nothing for you.

GPL is great :)
Alain
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