Re: [eclipse-dev] [ANN] Bugzilla Plug-in

[David Whiteman <dlwhiteman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thursday, November 11, 2004, 3:46:50 PM, Derek Anderson wrote:

> Jean-Michel Lemieux wrote:
>> BugList is GPL - means that I can't use it
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Jean-Michel

> i chose the GPL simply because it's the more traditional OSS license. 
> why does this make it unusable?  what do you gain/lose with the CPL?

> changing the license (or duel-licensing) is possible if there is a 
> compelling reason.

GPL is viral and discourages commercial development.  I think there is
discussion of this somewhere on the eclipse site.

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