Mark Norton;148164 Wrote: > Yes Jacob, but that doesn't pay the bills and if I had, for example, > come up with some of the algorithms built into SS, I'd be ever so > slightly annoyed at others benefitting from them to the extent they > have. > Then you shouldn't have contributed the code. No-one forced anyone to help out. Those who contributed code to slimserver never expected or asked for cash in exchange, we have to assume they had alternate means of paying the bills and knew what they were doing.
An important thing to remember is that Logitech may have bought SlimDevices but they did not (and, practically speaking, cannot) buy Slimserver. The individual developers still own copyright on everything they wrote, that's implicit and automatic, the GPL licensing simply allows others (e.g. SlimDevices) to distribute and modify that code. Look at a company like RedHat - they make money by selling Linux & related services/apps, but they only own copyright on a small fraction of the Linux codebase. Logitech are in the same boat - they now own a significant chunk of Slimserver (that which was written by SD employees), but not all of it, and if they tried to exert control or ownership over the app as a whole they could easily find themselves in hot water. We have to assume they know and understand this, and are either planning to (a) continue to support the existing development model or (b) build a replacement from scratch. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
