Re:MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL
by tjr on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @09:47PM
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What do you find preferable about BSD and MIT licenses in this respect?
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Re:MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL
by trippy_biscuits on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @03:59AM
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My employer's legal department loves BSD and MIT licenses because it's easier to sell software that way. When we need to update or add a new library or application, BSD/MIT licensed software get approved much more quickly. For example, we need to update the snmp package but we can't get it through legal because the license for many of the modules changed to GPLv3. A new python module would really make some things easier, but we can't get it through legal (GPL again).
Re:MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL
by belorn on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @10:38AM
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I must ask, have your employer ever purchased a proprietary application/module to use in any product? In a logical world, those kind of deals should have a ever worse time going through the legal department than GPL.