New Essay - "FOSS Licences Wars"

New Essay - "FOSS Licences Wars"

Ori Idan ori at helicontech.co.il
Sun Aug 23 08:49:09 IDT 2009


>
> I do completely understand the attractiveness of the MIT license. It's
> simple
> and can't come back to bite you later. I'm just saying the GPL has plenty
> of
> benefits.
>
> I am not sure I understand.
MIT license can't come back and bite me?
Correct me if I am wrong but in MIT license someone can take my software and
make it proprietary, add some features and sell it.
If it was GPL he/she could still sell it but I had the same option since I
can see his/her additions to the software.

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Ori Idan
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