More proof that people dont understand OSS licensing

It is incredible to me that despite all the publicity and sexiness of open source, the majority of people still dont understand how open source licenses work. Despite the good work of most folks in attempting to explain the key differences between Apache/BSD-style licenses, GPL licenses, and others, I get the impression that a lot of developers out there treat open source as some sort of no-strings-attached code resource. Want to use GPL library in your code? Easy… abide by the license, or find another alternative.

2 comments November 28th, 2007 javier