Open Source Licenses
I am by no means an IP lawyer and I do not play one on TV. So when I started researching license models I first searched out open source companies that where successful to see what they where using.
When I started reviewing open source companies, I was particularly impressed by JBOSS, who seems to be running with the LGPL. What I found in my search is that there are many ‘exotic’ licenses being used by different Open Source companies and there success doesn’t seem to revolve around the license model so much as there business model.
So moving forward we are planning to release our Zone Integration Terminal (ZIT) under the GPL licenses. This was chosen, as it seems to be best understood – and used by most open source projects.
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