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Re: bsd license question
Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
> The BSD license promotes wide use of the software, including
> commercial applications. It carries the risk that the core team can
> be bought out and the project taken private, thereby cutting out the
> users and even those original developers who weren't 'invited' or who
> chose not to go private.
We must keep in mind that at this point, the only loss the open source
community would suffer is a team of good developpers, not the project in
itself which would be forked and continued.
history (read: openssh and others) has proved that when an open source
project goes closed source it generally gets much less attention and
eventually is almost totally replaced by its open source counterpart.