On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 18:16 +0530, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
2011/1/7 Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@thenilgiris.com:
What I wanted to know was the reason for this "feeling". Anyway, if you know the answer please share - otherwise, ignore - not
important.
well - please go through this thread - enough reasons are there.
The reasons that made this *specific* company to spurn GPL in favour of BSD...
some morons have been spreading rumours that the GPL is 'viral' - I find that as a result, a huge number of people in the proprietary world who are looking towards open source are absolutely terrified of the GPL for fear that their computers will get infected ;-) In this particular case they want to open source in the hope that they can attract developers to improve their project for free. They are willing to pay developers who come forward, but their resources are not unlimited. There is also a possibility that they may want to market their own customised version of the project in future - they cannot do this if it is GPL'ed. Also for some strange reason they want me to do the implementation - and I do not do GPL.