Spring & GPL v3
Apr 30th, 2008 by sharps
Talking of Spring – SpringSource’s choice of license for their new ‘platform’ seems to have sparked some discussion over on TSS.
In a way – it’s sad that a perfectly decent product launch is over-shadowed by their choice of license – we (the OpenSource community) still clearly have work to do.
I haven’t decided whether their choice to dual license is smart or dumb and I also wonder if it was done with BEAOralces blessing – presumably they we’re a good partner at one point. Clearly SpringSource think they’re in a dominant enough position to make such a change – I guess their consumers will decide.
