We've expanded our news coverage and improved our search! Visit
oreilly.com for the latest or search for all things across O'Reilly!
| Weblog: |
|
BSD: Best License for IT? An Interview with Mark Brewer, CEO of Covalent Technologies
|
| Subject: |
|
The other side of the coin. |
| Date: |
|
2005-07-14 10:33:38 |
| From: |
|
markbrewer
|
Response to: The other side of the coin.
|
|
While I share your assessment that the GPL prevents software companies from improving code and keeping it for themselves. However, history certainly hasn't proven that software companies don't contribute their code and enhancements under the BSD license. Not only has Covalent made numerous contributions and enhancements to Apache projects, but look at IBM's donation of Cloudscape (Derby) and BEA's contribution and commitment to Beehive. |
