Going back to actual facts, the announcement of the license change
corresponds with a sudden increase in interest towards the project.
I have received a lot of highly positive feedback regarding the license
change: companies involved in this field obviously prefer Apache over GPL,
that's what I can tell. I'm not saying that Apache is always better than
GPL, because in other cases it might not be the case, but for FreeRDP it
*has* resulted in a significant change. The GPL chilling effect is not a
unicorn, it is real, and it did chill a lot of people away from FreeRDP
before we announced the license change. Oftentimes, companies will contact
me directly to ask questions and to know how they could help the project,
which is why it is not necessarily that visible on the mailing list yet.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Gerry Reno <gr...@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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