On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 16:03 -0400, Jason Slagle wrote: > I must admit I'm a fan of the Apache license or a BSD license of some > sort. It gives you the right to sell it while also remaining open. It > also means that I don't have to have a copyright laywer on staff to modify > your code and use it locally :)
You don't need one with the (L)GPL either: as long as you don't distribute your modifications, you can keep everything you do to yourself. And when you distribute, your obligations are only to those that receive a modified version of the software, not the public at large. For example, it's perfectly legal for Luke to modify the GPL'd puppet source for a client and give that only to that client - all he is obliged to do is to give the sources to whatever he changed to them and allow _them_ to pass that on. If that client chooses not to redistribute, that's the end of the story - it has to be a choice though, Luke can't require 'no further distribution' from his clients. Having to distribute the sources of your modifications is kinda moot with Ruby anyway - it would be much harder not to. David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
