<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tzafrir@cohens.org.il">tzafrir@cohens.org.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> ><br>
> I don't know about the legal aspects and I might not know much about the<br>
> industry<br>
> you are targeting but at some my clients there is a strict "no GPL" policy<br>
> while at<br>
> others the use of open source (especially GPL) requires the approval of the<br>
> legal<br>
> department which is complex.<br>
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</div>The alternative is not Apache or whatever. The alternative is a complex<br>
propritary license. Which has to go through the legal department anyway.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div>In many cases the alternative is to write the thing in-house in a <br>less reusable way, without unit-test but with more bugs.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> 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>
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</div>But this is when the GPL is used in production. Not for evaluation.<br></blockquote><div><br>So the developer will say: OK I know the company does not want me to use<br>GPL code so let me just check it out to see if it would work even though<br>
though I was told they cannot use it.<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Oh, and there are certainly other industries:<br></blockquote><br></div>Luckily there are already<br><br><br> Gabor<br><br><br>-- <br>Gabor Szabo<br><a href="http://szabgab.com/" target="_blank">http://szabgab.com/</a><br>
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