Michael Jennings wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Pure FUD? I'm sorry, but I have respectfully disagree about it being any
kind of 'FUD'.
>> 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
>
>
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