On Monday, 21 July 2008, at 13:45:47 (+0200), Jorge Luis Zapata Muga wrote:
> 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? how to achieve an open source > compromise and still be able to use EFL and develop for it?. How E and its libraries are licensed has nothing to do with the companies developing code around it. Contributions which become part of E or the EFL must be BSD licensed, but any given company's EFL-based products or "value add" need not be. That's the beauty of the BSD license. Besides, if your company's product doesn't provide substantial value-add above and beyond the EFL itself, you really don't have a product to begin with. :-) Unfortunately, the LGPL isn't really any less viral than the GPL. The only real difference is that it explicitly allows linking non-*GPL software with LGPL libraries/objects. (The fact that it's a *different* virus, and thus subjects its victims to much the same GPL exclusion as non-*GPL software, is a source of great personal amusement but little actual problem resolution.) If you're looking for a license which would allow free community use of your product without the risk of having your work stolen by another for-profit company, you may want to investigate the Artistic License or Creative Commons. But that may be more of a lawyer issue than a developer issue. IANAL, ATINLA. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Normal is in the eye of the beholder." -- Whoopi Goldberg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
