Picking a license

Paul Boddie paul at boddie.org.uk
Sun May 9 13:23:29 EDT 2010


On 9 Mai, 07:09, Patrick Maupin <pmau... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>                                              See, for example, Apple's
> support of BSD, Webkit, and LLVM.  Apple is not a "do no evil"
> corporation, and their contributions back to these packages are driven
> far more by hard-nosed business decisions than by any expectation of
> community goodwill.

This being the same Apple that is actively pursuing software patent
litigation against other organisations; a company which accuses other
companies of promoting closed solutions while upholding some of the
most closed and restrictive platforms in widespread use. Your
definition of "do no evil" is obviously more relaxed than mine.

Paul



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