I personally haven't felt the current license is too restrictive, and I also don't have anything against going to an Apache/BSD license.
I do really like the freedom of the Apache/BSD license. Josh -- Joshua Hansen Up Bear Enterprises (541) 760-7685 Tyler Pitchford wrote: > I would tend to agree. My theory is usually those who want to give > back will no matter what the license is. I'm all for switching over > to a "free" license, if it'll get RIFE more deployments. > > Cheers, > Tyler > > On 7/25/07, Geert Bevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, from looking at the history, I don't think that the code >> contributions up to now have had anything to do with the fact that >> it's a copy-left license. It has mostly been people that never >> intended to redistribute RIFE by themselves, so there were never any >> obligations to contribute back. While I am a proponent of copy-left >> licenses since I think that it's normal to give back when you receive >> the whole thing for free, I'm starting to think though that it >> actually doesn't make much difference in practice. So nowadays I'm >> starting to think that reducing the user-base due to more a >> restrictive license, is worse than the risk of someone not >> contributing back. >> >> On 25 Jul 2007, at 16:43, Tyler Pitchford wrote: >> >>> I guess I would say which is more important? Code contributions (if >>> you're getting any from the license) / the ability to request those >>> contributions or a bigger install base? I'm personally ok with any >>> license except the GPL (now that's hard to get through legal). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Tyler >>> >>> On 7/25/07, Geert Bevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> over the years I've had several discussions about the license that is >>>> used by RIFE. It seems that a lot of people have problems getting >>>> LGPL >>>> or CDDL through legal at their company. There are also quite some >>>> developers that only want to work on Apache or BSD-style licenses. >>>> >>>> What do you think about RIFE's license. Should I change it to >>>> Apache 2? >>>> >>>> Geert >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Geert Bevin >>>> Terracotta - http://www.terracotta.org >>>> Uwyn "Use what you need" - http://uwyn.com >>>> RIFE Java application framework - http://rifers.org >>>> Music and words - http://gbevin.com >>>> >>>> >> -- >> Geert Bevin >> Terracotta - http://www.terracotta.org >> Uwyn "Use what you need" - http://uwyn.com >> RIFE Java application framework - http://rifers.org >> Music and words - http://gbevin.com >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rife-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rife-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
