Hi Otavio,
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Otavio Salvador <ota...@ossystems.com.br>wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 19:37, Marc-André Moreau
> <marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Otavio,
> > I can't force your hand, if there is too much opposition to a license
> more
> > permissive than LGPL then I will have no choice but to comply. Maybe the
> > timing isn't right, it might be a little too early to switch to something
> as
> > permissive as ASL. However, if we switch to LGPL now, would you be open
> in
> > the future to switch to another license such as ASL, if we grow into a
> > larger project that is more feature-complete?
>
> Maybe. Personally I think we should focus on make FreeRDP LGPL and GUI
> GPL and make it rock!. The future of project is still a black box.
>
Yes, I agree that we should focus on making the project rock. However, I
disagree that we should see the future of this project as a black box. We
need to think ahead of time and stay up to date with the latest trends. This
is why I am talking of the "long term growth" of the project.
On the long term, I would like RDP to offer strong competition to VNC in
terms of popularity. VNC is mature and is supported on a wide range of
platforms, and has implementations in various languages and under various
licenses.
One recent example I can give of a missed opportunity is the recent choice
of Google to integrate VNC inside ChromeOS, hiring RealVNC employees:
http://www.realvnc.com/company/press/news/realvnc-collaborates-with-google.html
http://www.thechromesource.com/google-and-realvnc-partnership-will-aid-in-chrome-remote-access/#more-6696
Google is known for making extensive use of permissive licenses such as
Apache License 2.0. If you look at the licensing of Android, pretty much
only the kernel is under GPL, the rest being under permissive licenses. This
is a political decision: it's not the first time a company tries to bring
Linux to smartphones, but it is the first time it has such a success. This
is because Android, unlike the other failed attempts, does not suffer from
the GPL chilling effect. Yes, some smartphone manufacturers lock down their
Android phones, but that was a necessary license choice in order to make
Android get popular in the first place.
If we stick to LGPL/GPL, we can forget such opportunities for the future of
FreeRDP. If we switch to a more permissive license such as Apache, we open
the door wide open to more opportunities.
P.S.: Chrome 9 just came out with WebGL support, Chrome 10 will have support
for NativeClient (NaCL) which will allow native extensions with
cross-platform access to 3D acceleration. If you can't figure out yet what
I'm dreaming of, you need to replace that "black box" you see for the
FreeRDP future and replace it with nice ideas.
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems
> E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br
> Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br
>
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