On 9/6/07, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Here is an interesting page listing common open-source licensing:
>
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/licensing/licenses_summary.html
>
> I'm still trying to read up on the major ones so that I can post my
> thoughts on this conversation. (I'm not lurking on this issue, it just seems
> like something that needs careful thought.)
>
> I know we probably don't want to scare commercial developers. But we also
> don't want them to be able to abuse our licensing leniency.
>
> As part of the issue, I don't think we can get away without considering
> licensing different components of the project separately.
>
> The AOT is most valuable, because there isn't an open-source or even a
> commercial equivalent of what ours does. We may even want to license
> different parts of the AOT individually. Maybe modified BSD or MIT/X11 for
> its JITing and AOTing ability...
>
> ...but something more restrictive, such as LGPL, for the x86(et all) ASM
> stubbing ability, and the functionality (that hasn't been written yet) that
> will implement the loopback 'extern' stubs we have talked about.
>
> And the kernel itself, I just don't know... I would suggest going in the
> direction of Linux, but there has been *alot* of debate over Linux's
> licensing. But, if we plan on trying to port any tools or drivers, those
> parts of our code will have to retain the same licensing, I believe.
>
I also know, that Mono/Novell have people submit code such that Mono/Novell
has permission to relicense it as necessary.
I know we aren't a "business" that will have "commercial clients" that might
needs us to bend some licenses, but should we consider that SharpOS code
submissions may be re-licensable, by the democratic process of the project's
governance, should the need arise?
I mean, I know the idea can almost sound offensive, and thats not my intent.
I just wonder what kind of complications we'll have 5 years from now,
when/if we need to swing in a new direction and we can't get approval from a
one-time contributor from years before?
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