<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/10 Aviad Mandel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aviad.mandel@gmail.com">aviad.mandel@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">I hope this clarifies why GPL's limitation of distribution is so appealing as an evaluation license: It stops the evaluation users exactly at the point where they want to really use the software, in embedded terms. And if I'm not wrong about the whole idea, a well-polished license like GPLv3 is by far better than anything I can come up with, with or without ten lawyers, since it's written based upon experience with legal issues worldwide, which I will never be able to do.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>I don't know about the legal aspects and I might not know much about the industry <br>you are targeting but at some my clients there is a strict "no GPL" policy while at <br>others the use of open source (especially GPL) requires the approval of the legal <br>
department which is complex. Most developers and their managers try<br>to avoid it which effectively means using new open source code is difficult.<br>Even if they are already using a lot of open source tools and code.<br>
<br>IMHO in most of these cases the GPL license will be a deterrence <br>from even trying the thing.<br><br>Your industry might be different.<br><br>regards<br> Gabor<br> <a href="http://szabgab.com/">http://szabgab.com/</a><br>
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