[computer-go] Licenses are uselless

[Heikki Levanto]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:48:20PM -0700, David G Doshay wrote:
> While I won't dispute some of the previous reasoning on this subject,  
> Chrilly's comments below are the closest to the reality of the  
> license issue. The main point really is that if you do not have the  
> time and money to enforce a license world wide, the specific language  
> differences between the various open source licenses is not of any  
> practical consequence.

However, there is another consequence - how many people are willing to
contribute to the project. Some people stay away from all things GPL,
some insist on giving their contributions only to GPL'd software...

iPhilosophically, it makes a difference to the "feel" of the project if
the license says "take this code and use it", or "very limited license
given, read carefully before touching anything".

-H



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