Re: ImageJ + SourceForge
Posted by dscho on Oct 12, 2005; 12:10pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-SourceForge-tp3704686p3704693.html
Hi,
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Robert Dougherty wrote:
> I agree that Wayne's oversight is essential. I use ImageJ as a development
> platform for aeroacoustics research applications. I could not accept the
> Gnu license that I believe would come along as baggage with SourceForge.
> This license, if I understand it correctly, would make it effectively
> impossible to sell products derived from the software. When I studied this
> recently, I found the BSD open source license to much more acceptable, and
> chose apply it to the plugins that I make available to others, either for
> free or commercially.
This is wrong, and also misleading. If you're really interested in finding
out, there are plenty of places to read about the GPL and why it is so
"restrictive".
Hth,
Dscho