On Tuesday, 22 July 2008, at 13:20:07 (-0400), Jose Gonzalez wrote: > 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.
This is pure FUD. Numerous large and successful projects use BSD and related licenses, not the least of which is...BSD! BSD-licensed code is also in ever major UNIX kernel and operating system out there, even the SvR4 derivatives. > 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" Most any other license would attempt to infect the rest of the project. > 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. The only "advantage" that the GPL has over the BSD license is that it forces all derivatives to be GPL'd, meaning that nobody can create a closed-source project based on it. The only reason I can think of to not want that to happen is that you don't want anyone else making money off it (because really, if they're not making money, and you're already getting credit, what else is there?). If someone else manages to make money off your work that you contributed freely, that doesn't actually *hurt* you. Perhaps makes you feel taken advantage of, or envious, but it doesn't actually damage you. I've struggled with this before myself. I know how it feels to have someone else making money off your work and not at least having the decency to share the wealth. But I certainly don't see that as a valid justification for hoarding your code or withholding your contributions from the rest of the community. (Who is the worse person -- the one who is selfish with money, or the one who is selfish with code?) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "[Heather Graham] is the new I-would-run-over-my-best-friend-in-a- hummer-to-get-next-to-her girl." -- Claude Nobler ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
