On 09/11/11 04:50, Platonides wrote:
On 08/11/11 02:52, Olivier Beaton wrote:
What do I gain by not using gpl? Commercial use and forking under a license of your choice. The only thing that concerns me using bsd is how to accept contributions that im not merging in safely. Is zend framework concern with bsd and their use of a contrib agreement ?
My employer asked me to make modifications to mw for their use, i chose instead to spend my free time so i can share them with others. I cant use gpl even if i wanted to.
GPL doesn't preclude commercial usage. It requires you give others the ability to give the same (freedom) rights you gave them, but if the extension is going to be published in our svn, that doesn't seem a problem. Depending on your employer, you may be able to develop it in company time releasing the result under a free license (if the collaborative method results in having a better extension, your company will benefit from having the FOSS developers improve it, and reduce the time you'll need to maintain it as a fork).
GPL allows commercial usage, but it is seen by some as being anti-commercial, because of the restriction against integration with a closed-source product. That's why many software projects (e.g. PHP) refuse contributions of GPL code.
-- Tim Starling