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Re: [ox-en] Germ of a new form of society or germ of a new form of business?


Niall Douglas wrote: 

Very, very few investors will agree to the GPL. It permanently locks 
you out of flexibility which you might suddenly need later on when an 
opportunity arises. Of course if you prevent anyone else altering 
your GPL code this isn't a problem. However, why then not use the 
LGPL which can be converted to the GPL by clause 3 yet keeps all your 
options open?


<big grin>

I managed to persuade a major UK innovation seed fund that our work
*had* to be GPL'd. It took a little bit of work to get the ideas across
to their legal people, but in the end they understood that the kind of
innovation we were proposing could not be done in any other context.

Of course, their funding wasn't "hire a stable full of programmers and a
couple of thousand gallons of marketing people" funding.

</big grin>

cheers, Rich.

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