Andrew Brown wrote:
To the exttent that open source stuff is like folk music, it is built in that people will use it in ways which the originators would dislike.
But within certain parameters. For example, by far the most popular license is the GPL. This license doesn't allow you to just do whatever you want. It does allow you to do things I might not appreciate, but there are still limits. In particular, you can't make the code propietary.
This is why most open source is not public domain, or for that matter even BSD/MIT. People still want to put some limits on how their work is used.
And this is exactly why I would hesitate to sign the JCA. I would want my code to be GPL. In some cases, I might be ok with it being SISSL/LGPL like OOo. But that's about as far as I'd want to go. I would probably not be ok with it being BSD for example. Not usually at least.
Cheers, Daniel.
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