>--- Original Message --- >From: James Caska >To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >Date: 2/27/04 8:31:10 AM > >>BTW what do you share, and under what license? > >www.muvium.com >www.virtualbreadboard.com > >Freeware and public domain.. No licenses The problem with "no licenses" is that nothing stops the XYZ corporation from taking the code, tweaking it (i.e. rubbing off the serial numbers, if they can be bothered to spend that much effort), and making it their propriatary commercial product. And in this lawsuit happy world of ours, they can shut down your free software for infringing on "their" commerical, copyrighted product. Think you can win in court? Sure, but do you have $100K plus to defend your free software? Consider Microsoft, BSD, Linux, the BSD license, and the GPL. Microsoft could, tomorrow, take the BSD kernel, slap "Microsoft" all over it, leave in a copyright notice and sell their new closed-source operating system (Apple is actually doing this with OSX, but they are remaining true to the spirit of the open source community. Microsoft would not do this). Right now, Linux (not BSD) is Microsoft's biggest worry. It's the GPL that prevents Microsoft from taking Linux, creating a derivative and non-compatible kernel and selling their new closed-source operating system. Then they let Linux live -- every update to Linux gets fed into their propriatary extensions to produce an improved product, without having to release any of their fixes or improvements. Embrace, Extend, and Destroy. Bill -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads