Gustavo wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:45 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?).
>>
>> >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?. 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?
>>
>
> ProFUSION will release its code under LGPL (guarana and possible
> others to come). And yes, we think just like you, but the code is
> there and the majority of work was done by people that like it, so we
> don't care that much, since even if we start to do lots of work, it is
> still little compared to the whole codebase...
>
>
I'm not sure that the 'majority of the work' was done by people who *like*
that license, not for every sub-project.. or even if partly so, whether that
will
continue to be the case -- or more to the point, whether any real increase in
the growth and evolution of the project will happen under such a license.
Often, I saw some people react with hostility to any attempt to even bring
up the issue, and basically deliver a wide-ranging ultimatum that no code was
ever going to be accepted into E's cvs unless it was under a BSD/MIT license --
consider Michael Jenning's recent remark:
"Contributions which become part of E or the EFL must be BSD licensed"
I'm not sure what kind of 'authority' he feels he has to make such a
statement,
but it certainly doesn't reflect anything I feel comfortable with, and will
limit
my contributions to this project, for purely personal reasons -- even though I
like many other aspects of it, this one just doesn't work for me... never has
and never will.
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