5 Responses to “TextMate 2 is now available under GPL3!”

1. Panagiotis Atmatzidis says:
   | August 10th, 2012 at 13:07

   The arguments about GPLv3 are here readable: http://blog.macromates.com/2012/textmate-2-at-github/

2. cosmix says:
   | August 10th, 2012 at 13:40

   I know, I read the announcement. My question was largely rhetorical as I find the reasons given for the choice tenuous, at best.

3. Panagiotis Atmatzidis says:
   | August 21st, 2012 at 10:12

   You think he should have chosen a more ‘open’ license like BSD or MIT to let others create commercial applications out of it? Why so?

4. cosmix says:
   | August 21st, 2012 at 13:10

   It’s not about being able to create commercial apps. It’s about not being forced to taint your own software with the GPL. Let’s say you wanted to use part of TextMate’s codebase in your own project. With the GPL you can’t, under normal circumstances without going through hoops, do that. With a more permissive licence you could. That others would be able to recreate a commercial TextMate is irrelevant (to me).

5. Panagiotis Atmatzidis says:
   | August 21st, 2012 at 19:28

   Nice, now I see :-)

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