Hi BRM, *, BRM schrieb: > From: plino <pedl...@gmail.com>
[..] > Even the GPL does not provide that right. If a company wanted it could > take a GPL product, make whatever changes it wanted, and distribute > it internally to itself without ever contributing back to the > community as a whole. True. Anyone using it for his own can do so. > Likewise, it could also distribute that same project to its customers, > making the source available to them and them alone. True, they even can demand a fee for it. > The community will may never see any changes from them; yet that is > perfectly valid under all Open Source licenses - even the GPL. Not true. If one of those customers goes ahead and publishes the source code, that company can't forbid. This is covered by the GPL. That means: If IBM put copyleft code (LGPL/GPL) in symphony then I could by a copy, require the source code and publish it. > Nothing forces people to work with the community. No license can do > that. right, but Your example lacks the point I told. > So please do yourself a favor and put that notion - the myth - > aside. 50% myth remaining ;o)). [..] > they only have to provide the source (in that case) to the end-users > _upon request_ for up to 3 years for each version they release from > the time they make the "sale". (See the GPL license.) Which is enough time to get it, even if donations have to be collected ;o)) >> Under the Apache license any company can take your code, fix it and >> say: "Hey, this function in the open source version doesn't work. I >> just spend a day fixing it (instead of months to write it from >> scratch). Why don't you buy mine which works?" > They can do that under the GPL too. But we can get it back then. Thats a notable difference ;o)) Gruß/regards -- Friedrich Libreoffice-Box http://libreofficebox.org/ LibreOffice and more on CD/DVD images -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
