Friday, July 08, 2005
Open-source Licensing: BSD or GPL?
"Mark Brewer of Covalent Technologies argues BSD is better for the enterprise. As open source licensing models, both the Berkeley Software Distribution license and the General Public License have advantages and disadvantages. But in the end, the BSD offers more benefits to enterprise customers. Matt Asay of Novell makes the case for GPL. He says, no one open source license is ideal in every circumstance. Different licenses serve different ends. Berkeley Software Distribution-style licenses have been used to govern the development of exceptional open source projects such as Apache. Clearly, BSD has its strengths. However, all things being equal, he prefers the General Public License (GPL ). The GPL is one of the most exciting, innovative capitalist tools ever created. The GPL breaks down walls between vendors and customers while enabling strong competitive differentiation. Which is a better licensing model for open-source applications: BSD or GPL? What do you think?"
source: http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/08/0447259&tid=117&tid=7
source: http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/08/0447259&tid=117&tid=7
# posted by dark master : 7/08/2005 11:29:00 AM
