Re: [NMock2-Dev] NMock 2.0 License

[Nat P. <nat...@gm...>]

I don't think the GPL is actually that hard to sell into big
organisations.  FIT is GPL'd and has had no no problem being accepted.
 Granted, there are some organisations (or managers) who won't pay a
lawyer to help them interpret the license but they are also the kind
who won't pay for good developers:  NMock is going to help solve their
real problems!

However, I think having the same license as jMock will remove any
misunderstandings.  I'll upload a LICENSE.txt file into the nmock2/
directory today.

--Nat.

On 2/15/06, Mike Roberts <mik...@gm...> wrote:
> On 15/02/06, Mike Mason <mik...@gm...> wrote:
> > > I don't really see the issue with a GPL license. This is test code ri=
ght?
> > It is only used internally. I thought that GPL allowed for that. A GPL
> > license would only become "infectious" if you start shipping your tests=
.
> > I agree, but sadly it's not my opinion that counts. If it's GPL people =
will
> > have more difficulty using it in commercial environments. That's bad, a=
nd
> > regardless of the correctness or otherwise of that position, it's the
> > position many commercial companies have taken.
> >
>
> Just to echo what Mike says, unfortuantely facts don't often have a
> heavier weight than perception. I would definitely pick a BSD- or
> Apache- like license and avoid the 3 letters GP & L (even if
> pre-fixed)  it makes life for us consultant types really hard.
>
> Of course, if I wasn't a consultant I would be pushing for GPL, but I
> am, and only have effort to fight a certain number of battles.
>
> Mike
>
>
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