Hi, I have to disagree with David's posture. I think copyleft is more important now than it was time ago.
Currently we have more developers than ever before, and we've seen a lot of cases where companies/developers use code for their own purposes, improve it and never contribute back (yes, even breaking copyleft licenses). Ten years ago contributing back to a project was a common practice, maybe because GPL and LGPL were more popular, but now it seems people use BSD-like licenses even for things that don't need to be spread as a standard. In terms of contributions, I think BSD-licensed code gets less contributors because they don't have to, there is no social pressure, if the license doesn't force you to contribute back, there are a lot of people that won't do it. This remind me the old discussion about when to use GPL and when LGPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html We should choose different licenses for different situations, but I think we should use copyleft licenses in most cases unless there is a good and documented reason. Regards. -- Rubén Martín (Nukeador) Mozilla Reps Mentor http://mozilla-hispano.org http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano http://facebook.com/mozillahispano _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
