[Freegis-list] Tkgeomap 2.0 released

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:34:39AM +0200, Radim Blazek wrote:
> It is very good idea to switch to MIT license. 
> (L)GPL restricts practical use too much.

Your statement is far too general. It does not differentiate
with reagard to needs and values.

L(GPL) protect the freedom of a Free Software. MIT or BSDish don't.

Therewith L(GPL) are very helpful for commercial Free Software.
For example, I do not want other companies to earn money with
proprietarising my investment.

BSDish licenses are sometimes good for reference implementations of
protocols or formats to make them quickly adopted by the whole IT
industry which currently still is a mixture of Free and proprietary
Software companies.

Any other application of BSD for any commercial purpose does not
provide you with additional benefits over L(GPL). It only adds disadvantages
compared to L(GPL).

Finally, I've found no evidence at all that L(GPL) harms the practical
aspects of software. It only protects the freedom - thus if you mean
that the license harms your practice to derive proprietary products from
Free Software then of course you are right. But in that case your
anyway not interested in the ideas and values of Freedom and Free Software.

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