On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 13:49 +0530, steve wrote: > In an ideal world the other person would contribute the improvements > back > without having to be legally obligated to do so (as in the case of > GPL), however > in the BSD world this does not happen as often as it should (ask the > BSD folk > what they gained from Apple and M$ copying their code and improving on > it).
why harp on apple and M$? no one expects anything from them. Regardless of license they will find a way of perverting everything - look at the lakhs of ordinary contributors who contribute back - look at django or jquery. > This > is not to say that the other people copying/forking /never/ submit > back -- it > does happen -- with GPL tho' making it a legal obligation ensures that > it always > happens. not necessarily - a lot of people just do not touch GPL code - they prefer to contribute code to projects with a more free license. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
