On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 06:27, Dan Langille wrote: > > The flaw of BSD licenses for me is that someone can take my (or Kerns) > > work, repackage it as their own or modify it and not contribute the > > modifications back to the developer/user community > > This is not a flaw. It is a feature. If you don't want to share in > that way, don't use the BSD style of license. Many people adpot a > BSD license because that is exactly what they want to happen. > > To call it a flaw is inaccurate. From the licensee's point of view, a > flaw to one, is a feature to another.
Also, from a user's perspective it is great to have a choice between free source (which doesn't go away just because someone builds a commercial package) and a product with additional features which can then include components that are under different licenses and can never be added to a GPL'd package. I don't see how anyone is hurt by this new alternative unless the free version is so bad that no one continues to maintain it - in which case it wouldn't be much of a loss. There is also a fair chance that the commercial project will contribute code back since that tends to be easier than merging patches with every release. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
