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Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 16:09:54 -0000 |
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Nicolas Neuss <lastname@kit.edu> writes:
> 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.
That does not keep other people from contributing relevant portions of
code under the GPL, if they so desire.
--
David Kastrup
- 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, 2010/05/04
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library,
David Kastrup <=
- 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
- Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04