Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Monday, August 8 at 08:04 PM, quoth Bob Van Zant:
There's no question that the GPL is more restrictive than, say, the BSD
(or Apache or Artistic) license. The real question to answer is: what
does the BincIMAP project gain from that license? Does it have more to
gain
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:21:15PM +0200, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
My point, for Binc IMAP, is that the GPL does not allow companies
to write backends for the server and distribute that backend (or
the whole modified product) in binary form, and that's regardless
of how well defined our
On 2005-08-08, at 0229, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
Specifically, what behavior does the GPL prohibit that you (or
anyone else) feels should not be prohibited?
Adding a mailbox format, adding a depot format, adding in-house
extensions, authentication modules, and so on.
the GPL doesn't
I quickly see this turning into the same license debate we've seen 100
times.
Andreas was asking for a license that makes the business world feel good
about modifying the source. GPL does not make me feel good. Something like
FreeBSD where I can give back the changes that I want to (think what
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:57:27PM -0700, Bob Van Zant wrote:
I quickly see this turning into the same license debate we've seen
100 times.
Andreas was asking for a license that makes the business world feel
good about modifying the source. GPL does not make me feel good.
That's
Something like FreeBSD where I can give back the changes that I want
to (think what Apple has done for various open source projects)
makes me feel good and is probably a fair compromise.
That's no compromise for the user, only the developer, in that ACME
can build a whizbang out of the
On Monday, August 8 at 05:34 PM, quoth Bob Van Zant:
Something like FreeBSD where I can give back the changes that I want
to (think what Apple has done for various open source projects)
makes me feel good and is probably a fair compromise.
That's no compromise for the user, only the
On Friday, August 5 at 02:11 PM, quoth Bob Van Zant:
I certainly like the FreeBSD license. Can't get much more open than that. No
one is forced to give back their modifications under any circumstances which
makes a whole lot of sense.
Makes a whole lot of sense in what respect?
The company
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Bob Van Zant wrote:
I certainly like the FreeBSD license. Can't get much more open than that. No
one is forced to give back their modifications under any circumstances which
makes a whole lot of sense.
The company I work for takes advantage of a lot of open source software and
I certainly like the FreeBSD license. Can't get much more open than that. No
one is forced to give back their modifications under any circumstances which
makes a whole lot of sense.
The company I work for takes advantage of a lot of open source software and
although it doesn't make any business
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