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Re: Announce: GPL Framework centered on Postgres

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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 07:25:09AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Joshua D. Drake:

Sounds great! But why GPL? Are you looking to sell licenses?
GPL is to spread it as far and wide as possible as fast as possible.
LGPL?

My concern would be, I can't use this toolkit for a closed source
application if it is GPL.
Closed source?  It's a PHP framework. 8-)

Anyway, for a web application, the GPL is usually *less* restrictive
than various BSD license variants because you do not need to mention
the software in the end user documentation.  The viral aspect of the

The BSD license requires no such thing. It only requires that you
maintain the notice in the code. I challenge you to find a less
restrictive license. :)

public domain ;)


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