Sunday, February 26, 2006

Why Google prefers the BSD

Google uses the BSD license for most of its own software releases, but allows the engineer to choose the license. The unanswered question in this post is what the approval process is for releasing software open source at all. Google does not prefer the GPL, but does use the LGPL sometimes -- but finds the stewardship responsibility under those models too great.

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