From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2004-08-07T04:39:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Amazing GUI toolkit with visual designer & Ruby Integration

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 15:30, Ben Giddings wrote:
> I think the BSD license is fundamentally more generous.  If someone 
> wants to be completely selfish, they're free to do so.  If they want to 
> share their fixes, they can do that as well.  It's obvious why 
> commercial developers prefer to use BSD licensed code.  They have very 
> few obligations when they use it.  They can basically be as unscrupulous 
> as they want with it.

It's interesting to see how well the BSD license has worked out for the
PostgreSQL folks.  I think it's a pretty good BSD success story.  

Another anecdote - at one point I received some fairly extensive patches
for http://pmd.sf.net/ - which is also BSD licensed - from a fellow who
said he wouldn't have contributed them if PMD had been GPL'd.  

Yours,

Tom