Leo Simmons urges you to "not use the GPL or LGPL for software you write". He gives some reasonable justification for his policy. Not sure I agree, but he has his reasons. One of the comments below his post is the funniest thing I've read in a long time, though:
"How many succesful Open Source businesses do you know are based around ASL licenses?"
I point the poster to Orixo for a start.
There's been too much discussion as a result of FSF "denouncing" the ASF license. All incredibly dull - I say let the evangelists and pragmatists do what they like - but I will link to one more denouncement of FSF before trying not to take sides. Adrian writes: "the Free Software Foundation has redefined the term "free" to suit their purposes", and follows up with a beautiful and entertaining rebuttal of a certain well-known hardline Free Software person.
Anyway - all this talk of licenses is too boring. It's enough to send you to sleep, isn't it?
Update: *sigh* the dangers of posting late at night after a glass or three of wine. The above "FSF person" statement has been modified to better reflect the truth.
Posted by savs at February 24, 2004 1:29 AMHardcore FSF person? Wow, that's your opinion and definitely definitely not FSF's...
Posted by: MJR at February 24, 2004 9:46 AMTo be clearer: I am not a member of a Free Software Foundation. I do not have any email address @fsf* or @gnu*. I help run a group associated with FSF Europe (but do not have any formal role in that link), I admin one mailing list @gnu.org (accident of history) and I chat with Georg Greve if I meet him at a conference. I think that's about the full extent of links. I do support some of their aims, but that's probably true of Andrew too. Hey, does that mean Andrew Savory is a "well-known hardcore FSF person"? ;-)
Posted by: MJR at February 24, 2004 10:17 AM