Hi Kay
On 27/04/2009, at 9:10 PM, Kay Röpke wrote:
On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Arjen Lentz wrote:
Drizzle is available under a GPL license and the bzr history
contains, hopefully signed, commits from non-Sun employees, thus
making it impossible for any current or future owner of Sun to
simply take the code and run. Which is the whole reason for the
existence of the GPL.
I'm sure Sun's lawyers could clarify this, but I wouldn't bother.
Without a doubt management has done all the necessary work before
this project was started.
Actually, BSD licensing of new externally written contributions is
exactly what would allow Sun (or whomever owns Sun) to grab (a copy
of the) the codebase and also sell it under a non-GPL license.
After all, BSD allows them to do so and they do own the GPL
licensed bits of the code. This doesn't take anything away from the
community or contributors, but it does give Sun some extra
opportunity (such as, effectively, dual-licensing just like MySQL
has done).
Interesting. I wasn't aware that contributions should all be under
BSD. Thanks for the pointer!
Hold it, note that I did not say that.
You mentioned that both BSD and GPL are currently used. I merely
described the consequences of either choice (by a contributor) on what
Sun can or cannot subsequentially do with it, and noted my personal
preference for BSD on the client-library side and GPL on the server
side.
Please be tad more careful before assigning non-specified meaning to
what people write, this could cause a great deal of confusion and
misdirection.
Thanks
Cheers,
Arjen.
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