GPL as an evaluation license

[Gabor Szabo]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>wrote:

> > >
> > 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.
>
> The alternative is not Apache or whatever. The alternative is a complex
> propritary license. Which has to go through the legal department anyway.
>
> In many cases the alternative is to write the thing in-house in a
less reusable way, without unit-test but with more bugs.



> > 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.
>
> But this is when the GPL is used in production. Not for evaluation.
>

So the developer will say: OK I know the company does not want me to use
GPL code so let me just check it out to see if it would work even though
though I was told they cannot use it.



> Oh, and there are certainly other industries:
>

Luckily there are already


   Gabor


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