>Alain: It is not so much the resale of OpenKard
>without adding value that is at issue here, Uli. It is
>cheesy, in my opinion, but we will allow that. One
>hopes of course that they will at least attempt to add
>something more to their offer instead of just the
>convenience of not downloading the Standard
>Distribution via the Web.
Alain,
as I said several times before, I don't really mind resale. I do dislike
people just selling OC as if they had done it, thus ripping us off, but I
will accept it if it's necessary to keep it open source.
>Alain: To sell it as their own product, the person or
>company would have to make some non-cosmetic changes
>or additions to our source code. We call that a fork.
>So here is the main issue in my view: Should we allow
>forks to go commercial or, instead, stipulate that our
>open licence applies to forks/derivatives too .. like
>some of the licences that we have discussed.
>Otherwise, a large company can come on-board, fork,
>and make a fortune with our work, in the form of
>PROPRIETARY software.
You're right, we should be adamant in not letting people create
proprietary forks. Else it'd essentially mean we have a backdoor for people
trying to make money off OC. OC is mainly a free tool, not our means of
bringing welfare to the world.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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