Thanks Claudio, About "more freedom." That makes no sense out of context.
My interpretation is that the "more freedom" of [L]GPL is related to no fear of commercial exploitation without giving back. It is about freedom from that fear, if that's what the main concern is. It does not ensure that you'll ever see or know of a derivative work, even if it is done completely in compliance with [L]GPL. The freedom to see code and to modify it doesn't seem any different with respect to code released under the ASF, including Apache OpenOffice. For me, personally, I prefer ALv2 because it grants to others the same rights I have except for the copyright itself. (I also don't need to provide attribution when I reuse my own work, although I do so anyhow in accounting for the provenance of all code.) ALv2 (and the BSD license) also makes it simpler for people to know what they can do with the work without fear of infringement. That's what I want others to have reduced fear of. Clearly, other contributors to open-source work will make that call differently, and that is why there are a variety of open-source licenses. Being accountable for having clear provenance of the code is an independent consideration. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Claudio Filho [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 14:31 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Legal question about (re)licensing Hi 2012/4/29 Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]>: > I am not certain what this has to do with the original question. @Dennis Right! My question was more about one (of many) "advantage" (or fallacies) of LibO use, where they said that with their code "you have more freedom", where in true, haven't a QA in good state for support more that the final users. Or, in other words, isn't a good strategy to who wish to do a software evolution or integrate new features because haven't a legal clear environment, as Rob said (if i understand correctly, Rob). And how you said, Dennis, is more a curiousity point that effectivelly a problem, because for me also is indiferent the actions from them. Thanks for both. Claudio
