On 06/21/2011 11:21 AM, Adilson Oliveira wrote: > Em 21-06-2011 12:02, Gerry Reno escreveu: > > >> If he has some specific complaint, let's see it. What code, what file? >> > Let's calm down and try not get sucked into that. As you said yourself > nobody wins. I have contact with Peter for about 6 years (he may not > remember that) and he was always been honest and straigtforward so I > don't believe he means any harm. I think Cendio's code is not just in > specific places but entangled everywhere. They have the right to not > want the change in the license and we should not blame him personally or > Cendio for not agreeing with the people who want to change. I believe > anyone sees only two ways out: > 1) Not change the license. > 2) Ask Cendio what parts the code they contributed (if they willing to > do so, I don't think anyone has the right to demand that) to and recode it. > It's not an easy problem to solve, but I would like to ask: is the > advantage of changing license compensate all this trouble? > > []s > > Adilson. > >
Yes, it does. I don't know whether you have noticed. I didn't for a while either. But the projects that have been adopting the new open source licenses such as Apache License v2.0 have been wildly successful. For example, take a look at Google and the Apache Foundation projects just for starters. Their projects are white-hot with activity and contributions. And there is a reason for that. The Apache license is not viral. And why is that important? Because for those of us such as myself who for years have tried to get open-source participation inside of companies only to be shutdown by the corporate legal department. Corporate attorneys are deathly paranoid about copyleft viral software licenses. And so much so that it has prevented an enormous amount of otherwise available participation and support that would otherwise have been available to open source projects. Newer open source licenses such as the Apache License v2.0 have seen the problems and drawbacks to some of the previous copyleft open source licenses and so corrected for these problems. And the result is clearly evident. There are now coming available to open source projects a tremendous amount of contributions from the commercial industry for very skilled engineers that are churning out extremely good code into the open source codebases. And this ends us being good for everyone. Because now corporate legal is ok with the new Apache License v2.0 since it is not a viral license and cannot accidentally end up contaminating existing codebases within the corporation. And this is why the Apache License v2.0 is such a huge win for open source projects. And I'd like to see that win happen not only for FreeRDP but also for Rdesktop. I think it could breathe a lot of life back into Rdesktop. And I would hope that Peter might give this some thought. Regards, Gerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
