Re: TortoiseSVN License

Leon Zandman wrote:
>>The terms of the GPL mean many companies will not allow their
>>people to get involved with TSVN.
>
>
> Why not? As far as I understand GPL and LGPL are all about controlling
> offspring of the original product (i.e. changing/using the product's
> source code). But most end-users will never see/touch the source code,
> but only use TSVN as a stand-alone application. In that case the license
> isn't a very important issue, is it?

There was a very long thread about licensing back in August. This is one
of the references to company attitudes to GPL.

http://svn.haxx.se/tsvn/archive-2005-08/0753.shtml

The problem arises if an employee incorporates GPL code into a
commercial codebase, even a small amount.

Simon

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