Re: [binc] What license should we use for Binc IMAP in the future?

Kyle Wheeler <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:37:24 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.binc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday, August  5 at 02:11 PM, quoth Bob Van Zant:
> I certainly like the FreeBSD license. Can't get much more open than that. No 
> one is forced to give back their modifications under any circumstances which 
> makes a whole lot of sense.

Makes a whole lot of sense in what respect?

> The company I work for takes advantage of a lot of open source 
> software and although it doesn't make any business sense to give back 
> all of our changes to the open source world we do give back a lot of 
> bug fixes and minor enhancements.

That's cool. Out of curiosity, what sorts of projects has your company 
contributed to?

> We won't even look at GPL software.

Because you fear it, or...? I'm trying to understand the logic (or maybe 
just the mentality).

~Kyle
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