Quoting Tzeng, Nigel H. ([email protected]): > > On 4/1/15, 1:43 PM, "Rick Moen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I find that assumption vexing enough that, at one point, I proposed to > >do a lecture on 'Proven Ways to Use GPLv2 as the Core of a Proprietary > >Software Business Model'. (I don't know for sure what the backlash > >would have been.) > > *cough*MySQL AB*cough*
Among others. I actually had a whole talk outline covering several distinct models. > Is it odd that the only time I am inclined to use GPL is when I wish to > protect certain competitive advantages from potential competitors? That always struck me as a really obvious application. (And a legal instrument is what it does.) To quote Asimov's Mayor Salvor Hardin: 'An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.' (Not the great epigram that Hardin's 'Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent' has become, but it'll do.) _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
