On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 21:58, Marc-André Moreau <[email protected]> wrote: ... > That's the whole point. There are companies who will either find ways around > the GPL virality or will simply violate the GPL without care. Unless you > have the time and energy to pressure those companies into contributing their > code, I don't see much use in having such a viral license. Also, even if you > manage to pressure people into releasing their source code to comply with > the GPL, you probably would not want the code anyway, since it's probably > hackish and specific to certain needs (not ready for contribution or > external use). I think we should focus on working with the people that are > willing to collaborate than working with people who aren't willing to > collaborate. By switching to permissive licensing, we will get contributions > from people that are actually willing to contribute in the first place. ...
My whole point is that people _will_ be hired (if have not been yet and this whole license change is just a consequence of it) to make closed code based on freerdp and this WILL hurt the project. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
