But you cannot change the license once it is mostly
complete; by then
it will be too late.
If it was mostly complete, what would it be too late for?
Yes, I wonder that as well.
To late for a 100% open source world perhaps, but then only the most naive (like Richard Stallman) actually think it is realistic.
Open source is good for some things, but it is not the solutions to all problems.
Patrik Stridvall ps@leissner.se wrote:
Why would you want to change the license when it is mostly complete?
There will be very little reason for companies to enter the market at that time and why try to make it difficult for the few
that might.
I was using the following lines of thinking: If it were mostly complete, any changes would most likely be the result of bug fixes or minor improvements.
Exactly and therefore there would be very hard to find a niche for a company to profit in.
In the end, if you look at the larger projects (mozilla, openoffice, perl), you will see that any of them uses a straight *gpl scheme. My
You mean _neither_ of them, I guess.
suggestion is that if you are going to change it, change it to something like a currently existing project that has commericial involvement (mozilla/openoffice).
And the advantage of this would be the following?
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Patrik Stridvall