On 6-May-06, at 8:35 AM, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> 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?
Simple, someone says I want you to open source all of your code
because you have used a GPL'd product.
They take the company to court, I have to defend myself regardless.
>
>
>> 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?
Doesn't
>
>
>> 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?
I take it people are using openSSH without giving back ? The
projects I am familiar with are Postgresql, all of the apache stuff,
all of the codehaus stuff.
I know for a fact that IBM invests in apache. A number of companies
invest in PostgreSQL
Dave
>
>
> cheers,
> Lennert
>
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