Comments on: Keeping up with the BlogJones….. mid-April ‘08 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/04/keeping-up-with-the-blogjones-mid-april-08 Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:52:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Mike Linksvayer http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/04/keeping-up-with-the-blogjones-mid-april-08#comment-245410 Mike Linksvayer Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:21:34 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/04/keeping-up-with-the-blogjones-mid-april-08#comment-245410 There are lots of reasons to not use the GPL, and some of them are reasons to not use any open source license, but the one you give -- "we can’t build a system for someone who then wants to sell it again - without my customer having to give back that code to teh community" -- is not one if in fact you take no contributions, because if you're the only copyright holder, you can license to your customer under different terms. Of course if you use a non-copyleft license (eg BSD, MIT, or Apache), this is never an issue. NOT trying to convince you to release under an open source license, just setting the nuance straight. There are lots of reasons to not use the GPL, and some of them are reasons to not use any open source license, but the one you give — “we can’t build a system for someone who then wants to sell it again - without my customer having to give back that code to teh community” — is not one if in fact you take no contributions, because if you’re the only copyright holder, you can license to your customer under different terms. Of course if you use a non-copyleft license (eg BSD, MIT, or Apache), this is never an issue.

NOT trying to convince you to release under an open source license, just setting the nuance straight.

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