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notimetorelax on Jan 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: A few thoughts about Open Source Software

True. I realize now that this phrase may offend contributors to GPL licensed projects, please let me clarify what I mean.

Working for companies it is a rare occasion that we would open source a project, consequently most of the time we cannot use GPL libraries. On the other hand Apache, BSD and similarly licensed libraries are the safe option.

So for me it would be ludicrous to prevent others from benefiting from my OS libraries.

rbanffy on Jan 27, 2013 [–]

> it is a rare occasion that we would open source a project

Unless your company is shipping binaries to third parties, I don't think there is a need to open-source your applications.

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