Timothy Heald wrote: > I misspoke. The common misconception, and inherent abuse in that > community is due to people that don't understand that simply because > you publish your code, your not giving up your rights to your > intellectual property.
I don't think that is a problem that is specific to *that* community. > Also when you begin to get into derivative works it gets very messy. > I know inside one community I was active in derivative works became a > very problematic issue. People not crediting the original authors, > and in some cases blatantly stealing another's work and advertising it > as their own. Derivative work is pretty much a GPL problem due to the 'viral' nature of the GPL. It is much less of an issue with other licenses. > I don't know much about the BSD license. You should, it is much easier as the GPL :) > I have looked at parts of the GNU license. Basically what I came away > with was that anyone could take what I made, repackage it, and even > sell it, without any sort of royalties or up front mention of the > original product, so long as there was something stating it was a > derivative work in the source. That pretty much sums it up. The only important thing you left out is that they should make sure the source is easily obtainable if the distribution is in binary format and in that case the license has to be in a separate document. > How many of your clients read source? I don't know. I don't care. It is not like I release *all* my work under an open source license. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
