On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Jorge Luis Zapata Muga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I dont pretend to start a flamewar, if you do, please dont answer this > thread.The thing is that right now, the EFL has arrived to a place > where different companies are using this software, and several of us > are working on a company using the efl (raster, gustavo, cedric, me, > anyone else?).
This is not really anything new. E has been used commercially since raster worked for RedHat (1997 or 98?). > >From a closed source company POV, BSD license is great because they > dont need to give us anything back (fancypants example?); but for > companies that do want to build an opensource initiative based on the > EFL, BSD is not so great, because their code can be stolen from > others; so whats your opinion on this? It's not stolen if you are giving them the license to use it in this manner. Plenty of companies license code using this type of license. The motivation of contributing back is really the same as with any other open source software. The cost of maintaining a forked version increases over time as the mainline code base diverges from the fork point. By contributing their changes back the company gets the benefit of their changes being maintained by the community, not just their paid developers. > how to achieve an open source > compromise and still be able to use EFL and develop for it?. In my > opinion building a company around BSD license is not an option for the > market, but GPL'ing libraries is not good as it leaves all the BSD ppl > away, maybe LGPL? If a company really insists on using a reciprocal license like *GPL they can relicense a fork and distribute their changes in that fork with the license of their choosing. It's just going to be increasingly painful to integrate upstream changes as mentioned previously. Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
