Hey, I'm also completely uninterested in a license debate. I have my views and I'm happy to discuss them over beer anytime. I want to clarify one thing brian said, however. In the absense of assignment of copyright, the license chosen by the project you are contributing to is 1000% irrelevant to your ability to continue to use code you have written. Whether you contribute it to a project under the gpl, the bsd or a closed source license, this only covers how you are granting permission to others to redistribute your work. You still retain copyright on that work, so if you choose to contribute it to someone else under completely different terms, you may. This is the reason that lack of copyright assignment is actually the important thing here, and for everyone who wants to retain the ability to use their own work in an unrestricted (including closed source), you are covered.bsd vs gpl is, in this one specific case, irrelevant.
There. I think I managed to make it through that last bit completely license neutral! 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). > >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. > >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 > > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >Post to : [email protected] >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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