License selection for free software

[Carl Banks]

On May 6, 1:22 pm, vivai... at gmail.com (Ville M. Vainio) wrote:
> Excuse the long post.
>
> Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> >> I guess it's safe to assume that you are not opposed to using code
> >> based on more liberal license, right? :-)
>
> > I'm less inclined to base work on, or contribute to, a work under a
> > non-copyleft license, because I have less assurance that the code will
> > remain free for all recipients.
>
> 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.

The Wine project changed from MIT (I think) to LGPL because evil
corporations were hijacking its source code and not submitting
patches.  It happens.


Carl Banks