On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Johann Fischer wrote: > > > If RIOT is BSD'ed, for *me* personally time spent on it is not fun > > > time I like to in my unpaid spare time anymore, it becomes work > > > that is also fun. Work others can (and will) sell under their terms. > > > > I totally don't get this point. How do more possibilities to work > > with RIOT for *others*, take fun away from *you*? > > > > > (L)GPL guarantees that my contribution will stay part of something > > > that might improve, but is always available to me under clear > > > tearms. > > > > I disagree. The RIOT community guarantees that your and everyone > > else's contribution stay part of open and free software that might > > improve. Additionally, it might become part of something else, true. > > > I agree with Kaspar. > but this is hard to understand. (L)GPL does not guarantee that Kaspar's "contribution will stay part of something that might improve, but is always available to him under clear tearms." Anyone can take the code, modify or remove Kaspar's part and re-publish it. As Oleg said it is the community around the software that shapes the software.
> Also as a company we have interests that if a competitor uses our > work, it would be forced to admit changes or improvements back. > Sure that is a typical economic argument. Cheers matthias -- Matthias Waehlisch . Freie Universitaet Berlin, Inst. fuer Informatik, AG CST . Takustr. 9, D-14195 Berlin, Germany .. mailto:waehli...@ieee.org .. http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~waehl :. Also: http://inet.cpt.haw-hamburg.de .. http://www.link-lab.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@riot-os.org http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
