On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 07:47:51AM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> As a company I can tell you that if I want to put this board into a
> product and it is licensed under the GPL I have to do weigh the
> following. How much will it cost me to defend the licensing of my
> product
Why would you have to?
> vs how much will it cost me to pay someone to design one. Off the top
> of my head I'm betting that designing it is cheaper (for some reason
> lawyers get paid more :( ).
I don't see how you not liking the license on board A's design prevents
you from paying someone to design board B and licensing it under the
BSD license?
> Don't assume that because it is free they will simply use it
> without giving back. In fact the opposite is true.
You mean like with OpenSSH?
cheers,
Lennert
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