Timeline for Questions about software licensing
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| Jul 1, 2011 at 9:37 | vote | accept | iwayneo | ||
| Jul 1, 2011 at 8:43 | history | edited | Denis de Bernardy | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 258 characters in body |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 8:36 | comment | added | Jon Hopkins | @iwayneo - In my experience when clients or potential clients ask about OSS software they're concerned less about whether something is enterprise ready and more about (1) that you've used it correctly and aren't exposing them to potential licensing problems and (2) that it's an actively supported project that's not going to cause them support issues down the line. It's not the technical side they're worried about, it's the uncertainty. | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 8:29 | comment | added | iwayneo | lol - this is surprising to me. I have no issue convincing clients to use OS software anymore. If they aren't using Castle Windsor or likewise, or nHibernate - i probably wont work with them. | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 8:28 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | @iwayneo: "your IP is your business" - that's also incorrect in as far as I've experienced it. Your marketing is your business. Your ability to maintain and deploy that IP is your business. Not the IP itself. | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 8:27 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | @iwayneo: "I was under the impression we had already won that war. A long time ago." - I think you got a very wrong impression. Just look at the activity on github.com or ohloh.net. Personally, I only ever use and produce FOSS. I've a strong pref for BSD/MIT, too. PHP has a lot of GPL around. But if you look into Ruby, close to everything is BSD/MIT. In javascript, close to all jQuery is MIT licensed (best I'm aware, the dual GPL license was added because the guys from Drupal can't read). | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 8:19 | comment | added | iwayneo | I've written this post: blogs.sonatribe.com/wayne/2011/06/30/… is there anything there that stands out as BS? | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 8:14 | comment | added | Donal Fellows | LGPL also requires that people be able to relink downstream apps to use a new version of the LGPL library AIUI. | |
| Jul 1, 2011 at 8:08 | history | answered | Denis de Bernardy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |