On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Brian Aker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:30 AM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote: > >> people monetizing their hard work. But I am curious about why this was >> done. > > Give people the most flexibility with the work that they put into the > project. I've been finding BSD serves this purpose better then GPL for a > while now. There was a long bit of a talk I gave on this back at OSCON but > it simply came down to "let people reuse their work in whatever manner they > want too". > > I was talking to someone writing functions this morning. He reuses his work > elsewhere and wanted to make sure he could keep doing so. For him? His code > is all new and is not derived from the base code so for him it is pretty > important to keep his work in a format where he can keep using it wherever > he wants (and he was going to add explicit BSD headers to his files).
He doesn't give up anything by contributing that code to Drizzle with GPL license. > > Frankly though, I hate these license discussions and won't really get into > them (and really won't debate them, and I say this as a warning to anyone > who is thinking to reply to this email and get me into a debate). In recent > years I've become a lot more of supporter of just BSD'ing stuff and staying > out of license discussions. People love to debate the GPL... I don't. This isn't a BSD versus GPL debate. Sun can resell commercial licenses to Drizzle. That should be made clear in the FAQ. > > When I get around to it, I'll write up more of my thoughts about this and > put it into a blog. My interpretation of the GPL is similar to Linus's... > but frankly it doesn't matter. What matters at the end of the day is what a > lawyer can get away with in court. > > Cheers, > -Brian > > -- Mark Callaghan [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
