New Essay - "FOSS Licences Wars"

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 01:49:09 you wrote:
> > 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.

You're absolutely right. The bite I was referring to was when you have your 
GPL software and find other software you'd love to combine with it, but you 
can't because they have incompatible licenses. That's much less likely to 
happen with MIT software.

SteveT

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