Thanks Jim, nice considerations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sonicle S.r.l. : http://www.sonicle.com Music: http://www.gabrielebulfon.com Quantum Mechanics : http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gabrielebulfon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Da: Jim Klimov [email protected] Alan Coopersmith Data: 8 novembre 2016 21.32.56 CET Oggetto: Re: [discuss] licensings 8 ноÑбÑÑ 2016 г. 18:29:33 CET, Alan Coopersmith пиÑеÑ: 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  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
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