GPL as an evaluation license

[Gabor Szabo]

2011/4/10 Aviad Mandel <aviad.mandel at gmail.com>

> 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.
>
>
I don't know about the legal aspects and  I might not know much about the
industry
you are targeting but at some my clients there is a strict "no GPL" policy
while at
others the use of open source (especially GPL) requires the approval of the
legal
department which is complex. Most developers and their managers try
to avoid it which effectively means using new open source code is difficult.
Even if they are already using a lot of open source tools and code.

IMHO in most of these cases the GPL license will be a deterrence
from even trying the thing.

Your industry might be different.

regards
  Gabor
  http://szabgab.com/
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