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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.

Posted 18th December 2010 at 6:29 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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