License selection for free software

[Carl Banks]

On May 7, 2:39 am, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> vivai... at gmail.com (Ville M. Vainio) writes:
>
> > In practice, the probability of hijacking of source code by an evil
> > corporation is very low for most projects. And even when it did
> > happen, the evil corporation would likely submit patches.
>
> If they're going to submit patches then they shouldn't have any problem
> with the GPL.

Nonsense.  They could be more than willing to contribute their
patches, but aren't willing to accept the GPL's limitation to being
used only in open source packages.

LGPL?  No, there is probably no reason to have a serious problem with
that if you're going to submit patches, but GPL, yes.


Carl Banks