[sldev] ESC exempt from open source and GPL licensing?

Jason Giglio gigstaggart at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 05:21:52 PST 2007


Tim Shephard wrote:
> Yeah, it's a great business model.  Contribute code and give up all
> your copyrights to LL who then in turn sell your free code for money
> to ESC.

I (rightfully I hope) give LL a lot of shit, but this is kinda unfair.

LL gave *us* half a million lines of code, we've given them what? 
10,000 lines back?

Keep it in perspective here.  What LL is doing is not even that unusual, 
and certainly not unprecedented.

-Jason


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