Comment in line On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Steve918 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The reason corporations are faster to take up Apache licensing has > everything to do with the fact that it benefits them the most. If the > author of a program chooses dual licensing, so what. They wrote the > program, if anyone deserves to benefit from it, it should be the > author of the program. The fact is everyone still wins with dual > licensing. You STILL get the source code of the program and you can > STILL recompile it, change it, and redistribute it under the GPL. The case that I am talking about is when the original author accepts contributions from the community but then licenses the entire work under a commercial license or even adds additional non open-source features. As the orginal author it makes a lot of sense, but as a contributor it doesn't. What do I care if its an individual or a company that's making money on my work. I still don't see a nickel. That's another reason projects that adopt the ASL grow faster, contributors can use their own work and even add and distribute it commercially. With GPL, dual-licensing, only the original author holds that benefit. Shane > > > Apache V2, does not protect you against people distributing your > application or portions of it as closed source and using it for their > benefit without giving anything back to you or the community. > Apache V2, does not protect you against Tivoisation and DRM. > > GPL V3, protects the software authors freedoms and the freedoms of the > end users. > > If you want your applications to remain open-source and to always be > distributed as such the GPL V3 is they only way to ensure it is so. > > > On Apr 1, 10:02 am, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HI Peli, > > > > If you GPLed your code then it would mean that anyone distributing one > of > > your intents would also have to GPL their code, and so on, as GPL is > viral. > > ASLv2 is not. ASL tends to drive faster adoption rates, particularly > among > > corporations, but then those same corporations may choose to modify, > > distribute your code without making their own modifications open-source. > > Developers, however, can GPL their code and then turn around and sell a > > commerical license, thus benefiting themselves financially, without > giving > > their community the same rights, so its not as pure as it always seem. > > > > Personally, I'm hoping to see most apps follow Google's lead and use > ASLv2, > > otherwise we would end up in a situation where all the ASL licensed apps > > would have to stand clear of any GPL distributions. If everyone GPLed > their > > code and didn't do the dual licensing, well that would be a different > story. > > > > Shane > > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Steven, > > > > > I read your post, but it was not completely obvious to me what exactly > > > you wanted to point out: > > > * Why should developers use GPL v3 rather than GPL v2? > > > or > > > * Why should developers use GPL rather than Apache 2 license? > > > > > And what could potentially happen if developers choose the Apache 2 > > > license instead of GPL v3? Since I'm part of an open source project, > > > I'd be highly interested in the main motivations behind your > > > suggestion. > > > > > from your blog: > > > "So if you release your application under other open source licenses > > > (including GPL V2), services providers and device manufactures have no > > > legal obligation to allow unsigned/modified versions of you > > > application to run on their devices. They can just take your > > > application and your freedom along with it." > > > > > What does this mean? Do they have the legal obligation to allow your > > > application if one uses GPL v3? I'm not sure I follow your point here > > > completely... > > > > > Peli > > > > > On Apr 1, 8:45 am, Zach Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I second that! GPL v2 or v3 will help keep the community thriving. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Zach Hobbs > > > > HelloAndroid.com > > > > Android OS news, tutorials, downloads > > > > > > On Monday 31 March 2008 23:55:22 Steve918 wrote: > > > > > > > I recently published a post discussing reasons why GPL V3 is the > > > > > obvious choice for Android Developers. Comments would be greatly > > > > > appreciated. > > > > > > > > http://steven.bitsetters.com/articles/2008/03/31/keeping-googles-andr. > > > .. > > > > >nest/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
