On May 7, 6:56 am, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6 Mai, 19:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ville M. Vainio) wrote: > > I don't think BSD/MIT like license really annoys anyone. Think python > > here ;-) > > As some have pointed out, it can discourage people from contributing. > I've said many times before that some companies might not contribute > to a permissively licensed project because their competitors could > leverage the benefit in proprietary software, and I consider Linux and > the involvement of companies like IBM to be a reasonable example of > this.
That IBM and other companies are involved with Linux is an example of companies that are willing to get involved with GPL; it says nothing about whether those companies would be more, less, or un- willing to also get involved with more permissive licenses. IBM is also involved with Apache, which does have a permissive license. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
