"Zed A. Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GPLv3? > > How do people feel about Vellum's GPLv3 status? It actually doesn't > impact anyone unless you embed Vellum into a project/product or you
Yeah, but it effectively prevents people from embedding it into their apps that wish to remain BSD/MIT clean. It's not likely that some evil corporation is going to hijack Vellum source code as a basis of their next evil app (which is basically what GPL is used to prevent) any time soon, so I don't really see a particular reason for such a developer-oriented tool to be released under GPL. Basically, avoiding GPL maximizes the brainshare that a small-ish tool is going to attract, and many (including myself, FWIW) view GPL as a big turn-off when I consider spending some time to familiarize myself with a tool, or recommending it to someone else. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
