[gdal-dev] Licensing Policy for drivers and applications

[strk]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:33:20AM -0500, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> I speak from experience: I had to refrain from using QGIS in a 
> (closed-source) project for a client not long ago because of its GPL 
> license. If there had been a single copyright holder I'd have talked to 
> that person instead of starting from scratch, but with multiple 
> copyright holders that simply made QGIS a no-go and the QGIS project as 
> a whole lost some potential users and contributors.

How much did "starting from scratch" cost to you or your client ?
Was it worth the closed-source choice ?
I guess it was (or the client wouldn't have taken it)

Well, my hope is that choosing proprietary software will be increasly
less worth, thus I prefer licenses on the "free" plate of the balance.

--strk; 

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