Akhilesh Mritunjai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Riiight... that's why we usually see people putting stuff in public domain - 
> no ? or in BSD - no ? 
>
> Ok, so how much code are Linus & Co. are willing to put up in open ? Hell, I 
> consider it as a black hole - stuff goes in but doesn't come out. Ask the 
> *BSD guys. They take stuff and make changes GPL only. As a result the 
> original contributors are left with a very bad taste. It's right in legal 
> sense, but _NOT_ in good faith.
>
> If ZFS etc is (dual) licensed as CDDL+GPL, what is to say that other people 
> won't make changes GPL only ?

Good point!

In our current world, OSS is becoming an ecosystem.
We should not support people who do not allow us to take their 
code also in our projects.

Jörg

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