Comments below. 2007/9/25, Tom Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...]
The level of protection for developers under the current license is exactly > ZERO. The only party with any protection is the University of California. > I raised this last year and got no support for updating the license to the > updated BSD license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.phpwhich > would provide contributors with protection. How is this protection expressed? I don't understand the difference in this respect. Is this explained somewhere? > Linus said: > > > The purpose of requiring the [original] BSD license is to allow for > companies > > to take ArgoUML, make additions and market the resulting product. > > All open source licenses allow this. The BSD/MIT/Apache family of > licenses > additionally allow companies to make bug fixes to our code and then not > share those bug fixes with anyone else. Other licenses like LGPL/Eclipse > require that bug fixes and improvements to the existing code be shared > while > allowing new code to remain closed-source. The GPL license requires > everything to be open source including completely separate additions. > > What we've seen in practice is that commercial companies fork the ArgoUML > source and provide no benefit back to the community in return. A much > better scenario would be one in which both commercial and non-commercial > parties contribute to enhance a public commons that they can both benefit > from rather than ending up with stale dead-end forks. A license like the > EPL or MPL which required bug fixes to be contributed would be one way to > achieve this. The question is, as I wrote before in this thread: would this work? Will it benefit the development of ArgoUML? /Linus I understand that forking the code base is the only way that the license > will ever change and I don't have the energy for that right now, so I > guess > we're just stuck with what we've got for the time being. > > Tom > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
