Hi Arjen,
On Apr 27, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Arjen Lentz wrote:
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.
mmh, that's true.
You mentioned that both BSD and GPL are currently used.
Yes, I my mail indicated my understanding that both are used for
contributions.
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.
Ok, I misread that.
Please be tad more careful before assigning non-specified meaning to
what people write, this could cause a great deal of confusion and
misdirection.
Isn't that a bit of a harsh judgement for a misunderstanding? After
all you have the chance to correct where I'm wrong and taking a short
email thread out of context is quite hard. I doubt anyone will have a
hard time following this discussion.
So, here's what lead me to my statement:
http://drizzle.org/wiki/FAQ#How_are_my_contributions_licensed.3F
I think it's rather clear and hard to misunderstand. The fact that
you've started with pointing out why BSD is a bad choice in your
opinion tricked my jet-lagged brain into thinking you were confirming
the FAQ. Sorry to wrongly attribute that to you.
cheers,
-k
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