Interesting to see this blend of GPL and an alternative for closed-source software.
Not totally unrelated, I saw this in your web-site (Ice vs CORBA
page):
<QUOTE>
No "Design by Committee" Ice was designed by a small group of dedicated and highly experienced
people.
</QUOTE>
Am interested to know, what "percentage" (*) of the code in your CVS repository has been contributed by people other than the group mentioned in the quote above? Obviously, you do not allow anonymous CVS write access. Perhaps, one wishing to improve Ice (a freedom granted by GPL) and who does not work for ZeroC has to mail his/her improvements to your maintainers?
(*): Percentage is a very nebulous term, I know. For purposes of answering the question, maybe you could resort to the not-highly-meaningful number of LOC, and perhaps a word or two about how Ice benefited from it.
100% of the Ice source code has been developed by ZeroC employees.
Note that this does of course not apply for third-party code that is being used by Ice, such as BZIP2, Berkeley DB, OpenSSL, etc.
- Anand
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