On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:01:42AM -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.
Right, so you would just take something without permission of the
owner, and then complain about the owner not being happy with that.
You are arguing that the owner should just give it to you because
that would be better for you.
That's like saying that if I one day walk into the Walmart and decide
to take something without paying for it, I might get into trouble, so
it would be better if the Walmart would just give it to me for free.
> > 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
So, you like this design, you said that you were willing to put
your money where your mouth is, and you also said that you don't like
the GPL. There is a good solution: you pay Dave to license his design
under the BSD license, so everyone (including your company and TS and
everyone else) can use it under the BSD license, and you won't ever
have to worry about the GPL police knocking on your door -- how does
that sound?
> >> 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?
Yup. Even though it's one of the most successful open source projects
(BSD, GPL, whatever), people for some reason weren't just standing in
line to donate -- which somewhat contradicts your initial assertion.
> 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
So perhaps you can fund Dave's hardware design too.
cheers,
Lennert
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