[Ilugc] Understanding Free and Open source code licenses
- From: metherid@xxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:48:33 +0530
On 02/03/2011 08:10 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote
nope - just analyse all major projects and you will find that license is
largely irrelevant - the success/failure of a project depends on:
1. if there is a need for it
2. the attitude of the core developers
I have given enough examples for this - so far the only evidence to the
contrary is the statement that one NetBSD developer told you this.
License is very relevant and there a number of articles published which
talk about this. Feel free to talk to any major project or FOSS
leader, take your pick from Glibc to GNOME, FreeBSD, Mozilla or Apache
and you will find that they value their choice of license very
heavily. Your examples have merely shown that a license does not
guarantee success and I have made no claims to the contrary.
Rahul
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