Weiqi Gao wrote: >I would start to worry if the free version of the project show signs of >abandonment. But then again, a truly useful and intrinsically >sustainable open source project will live on even after the original >contributers leave the project. > >Ximian licensing their portion of the Mono code with a different license >doesn't worry me a bit.
I don't think the licensing part is really an issue, I think the issue is that Ximian cannot dictate a non-compete arrangement to a non-employee who is an open source contributor. They do not 'own' the entire project in its entirety. They have no right to tell a contributor they cannot be involved because they contribute to another project. This is one reason why I have stuck to just lurking and observing, and have not yet made up my mind what project I want to contribute to. ...just my 2 cents. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Weiqi Gao Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Dot_GNU PR Folks on Slashdot On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 04:14, Zaphod wrote: > > I don't know ... I just read the FAQ ... and found this curious .. it is > not often that I see an OSS project say this explicitly in their FAQ ... Two projects I can think of that have this arrangement are Cygwin and Ghostscript. Both are stellar Open Source projects. The existence of an alternative closed source licensing arrangements is not a problem as long as the open source version is active and up to date. > There are some projects that had people to think it was free and then later > pushed a non-free release (Sourceforge ?) .. So I appreciate mono being > honest with their contributers .... I would start to worry if the free version of the project show signs of abandonment. But then again, a truly useful and intrinsically sustainable open source project will live on even after the original contributers leave the project. Ximian licensing their portion of the Mono code with a different license doesn't worry me a bit. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
