Non GPL Python MySQL Client Library.

Paramjit Oberoi p_s_oberoi at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 30 21:48:45 EDT 2004


On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:11:16 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> programs.  That means using BSD turns off a certain subset of
> potential volunteer contributors.  Microsoft already gives me enough
> 
> Using GPL may also turn off some contributors; whether that number is
> higher or lower, I can't know for certain.  But I do notice that the

I can't claim to speak for others, but the few contributions that I have
made to open source software projects have been because the software
didn't do what I wanted it to do, and I was simply implementing that
functionality for myself.  The exact license probably doesn't affect
people with this motivation... we do what we have to do, despite the
license.

-param



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