On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Jon Schewe wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 09:13 -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > >> In the end, you basically suggest that the sole advantage of the BSD >> license over the GPL is that the BSD license attracts developers who >> want to use a proprietary model of software development. In other >> words, the BSD license is best for those who would like to profit from >> our code without giving back any code to the developer community. >> What's good about that? That clearly is the core issue. Couldn't you >> have left off nearly everything else and just told the reader why he >> should want his code to be used in proprietary software projects that >> compete with open source projects? > > What about people that want to use your project and are willing to give > back to the project patches to improve the project, but are unable to > open source the software they are writing that uses your project? If they give back the patches, they've "open sourced" their code, or do you mean that they send back patches without the permission to use them? I don't quite understand the situation you are trying to describe. Mike