On 3-Aug-08, at 12:43 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Andreas Volz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> It seems the license question is still very much discussed. Until >> now I >> didn't say much about it. But now I like to add my 2 cents to that >> topic. >> >> At work we develop software for embedded devices. In most cases is >> the >> result a commercial closed-source product. >> >> For sure we used open source software in the past (not based on EFL >> until now!). So GPL is no option. The LGPL would be an option. But >> in most cases it's not an option as good as BSD (better say MIT). The >> reason is that in most cases it's needed to modify the library >> itself. >> For example if there's a Win32 and a Linux port, but no WinCE port. >> For >> sure one could contribute the changes back to the open source >> project. >> But in most cases this doesn't happen because of time or interest. > > This is exactly what companies that contribute back, like ProFUSION > and others, dislike. We do contribute back and we expect that others > do that, we want others to play fair. >
This is also what other companies that contribute to the EFL like. They want to be able to hold some stuff back while giving other stuff back to the community. > This might not be a problem for u as an individual developer that > writes code on free time and don't care about that. But for us, we > release the software expecting to improve the projects we've used, but > we don't like competitors taking advantage of that and never giving > back. > Yet, this is exactly what you talk about in the next paragraph by forking to LGPL. You'll take all the code and never give anything back. dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
