8 ноября 2016 г. 18:29:33 CET, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> пишет: >On 11/ 8/16 08:48 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: >> My question is: beside opening the source to non-profit people, how >much are we >> protected against >> people forking and maybe redistributing and packaging it as their own >product? >> Do we have any chance to protect us from this, but still be > considered open source? > > No - a key qualifier of open source is granting others the rights to > fork, > redistribute, and package their own versions. If you don't allow that, > then > you're "shared source" or something else, not Open Source. > > See points #1 & #3 in https://opensource.org/osd > > -alan- >
Your best protection against forking is to make your community comfortable so people stick with the experts - you - rather than fork. They contribute and if younaccept that back - help make the product more comfortable and useful for themselves, and maybe others. Cooperation via github starts by pushing the Fork button BTW ;) But even if someone does fork away into a new project, they might do so to explore areas and opportunities you won't - and with license staying the same (they still don't have rights to your and generally contributors' original IP sufficient to relicense differently) - you can pick back what you like into your parent project. Jim -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Samsung Android ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
