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Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library
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Nicolas Neuss |
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Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library |
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Tue, 04 May 2010 16:09:49 -0000 |
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> It does not get you "anything additional", but it gets you something
> _less_: a proprietary product that uses your own code to draw your
> user base away from you.
This is quite understandable - I would not really like seeing Microsoft
use my code.
However, when I was in search for a license for code of mine -Femlisp, a
PDE solver written in Common Lisp- I stood before the question which
license to choose[*]. A commercial license did not make much sense,
because the code was (and is) not yet commercially valuable. However, I
wanted to retain at least some possibility of providing enhanced value
(in the form of additional features) within a commercial setting. A GPL
license would make this business model impossible for everyone -
_including me_ as soon as other people would start contributing relevant
portions of code under the GPL. Therefore, I decided in favor of the
(modified) BSD license.
Nicolas
[*] More precisely, I asked my university for permission to use either
GPL or BSD, and then had the choice.
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, (continued)
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, RJack, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Hyman Rosen, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Thomas A. Russ, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Alan Mackenzie, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library,
Nicolas Neuss <=
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Nicolas Neuss, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, RG, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Raffael Cavallaro, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Lieven Marchand, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Raffael Cavallaro, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Andrew Haley, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Raffael Cavallaro, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, Hyman Rosen, 2010/05/04