Picking a license

[Albert van der Horst]

In article <4be95545$1 at dnews.tpgi.com.au>,
Lie Ryan  <lie.1296 at gmail.com> wrote:

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>Come on, 99%  of the projects released under GPL did so because they
>don't want to learn much about the law; they just need to release it
>under a certain license so their users have some legal certainty. Most
>programmers are not lawyers and don't care about the law and don't care
>about the GPL; if a commercial programmer want to use the GPL-code in an
>incompatible licensed program, and he comes up asking, many would just
>be happy to say yes.

This is a big reason for me to release everything (see my website,
it is a *lot*) under GPL. If someone wants to use it they can,
if someone wants to use it commercially, they can too, as long
as they pay me a little bit too. Really, I'm reasonable.

Groetjes Albert

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