[Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:50:04 +0100


On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:53:34 -0700, Kapil Thangavelu
<kthangavelu@earthlink.net> wrote:

>I want to give my code to the community. i don't want people taking my
>code from the community and distributing it without giving back.

If that is your motivation then you may find that you get *more* back
by not using the GPL. My contributions to Zope (both personal and on
company time) are fairly significant in total, and would not have
happened if Zope was under a GPL license.



Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com