Caldera to introduce modified open-source license

[mairving]

Hopefully this will not be a trend.
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[WickedLittleSlaveBoy]

looks like it would be a good trend to me, if your view is that you want some good commercial software to move over to open source operating systems. since you so obviously read /., you should look back over the recent article that gives RMS's statement about MS's attack on the GPL or go to gnu.org.

"To understand the GNU GPL, you must first be aware that the GPL was not designed for open source."

so, as you see, if it's not designed for open source, what bearing does Caldera thinking about an open source license have on anything? no, GNU is GNU, if you put software under the GPL, it becomes GNU property. if you use GNU code, your software becomes GNU software. that's not necessarily a good thing to businesses that are used to owning the software they produce.

the point is, if Apache, Mozilla, X and *BSD can thrive under non-GPL licenses, then maybe others can too. even GNU saw a need for commercial software to work with GNU software, so they created the LGPL....would you like to tell RMS he was wrong for creating a new license?

I love GNU's software and the GPL, but after having seen what Apple was able to do with BSD(the GUI is one of the best I've seen, the best as far as Unix and variants go.) without affecting the need or viablity of the other BSD distributions, I have to wonder what an established company could do to make GNU/Linux a better desktop operating system. the problem is that they're all too scared of their software becoming GNU software.