RE: AW: License proposal

RE: AW: [Barracuda] License proposalI would suggest that would apply equally
well to *any* company whose revenue model is based on creating packaged
software intended for sale to more than a single customer. If all those
customers had the right to resell or give away then revenue pretty much
becomes limited to sale of support contracts and the like.

For a custom developed solution for a single customer it may not be so much
of an issue as the revenue there is usually derived from hours billed and
the product is customer specific - though companies still wouldnt want their
competitors to see all their nifty coding tricks (or to have them pointing
out all their mistakes to the customer)! From the customers point of view it
would be a good thing though, as with the source available and rights to
modify as they wish they could call in a different consultant to maintain
the system if the first wasn't to their satisfaction...


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Subject: RE: AW: [Barracuda] License proposal




  >Does using an LGPL library/framework with a Java app require the user to
make their product LGPL??? Does it require them to allow their product to be
reverse-engineered?

  An acquaintance posed the difference this way: "From a revenue
perspective, Microsoft would use LGPL, Apache or BSD licensed software. It
would never use GPL licensed software."