What is the best license for a web framework (ex: Cake, Rails, Django): GPL, BSD, MIT, other? Why?
18th December 2010
My answer to What is the best license for a web framework (ex: Cake, Rails, Django): GPL, BSD, MIT, other? Why? on Quora
Not the GPL. The share-alike viral clause will prevent anyone from creating closed source proprietary projects on top of the framework.
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