On 9/9/07, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Going with MPL only is IMHO a bad idea.
MPL is the pragmatic choice. Chriss is a much bigger stakeholder here than me though. > First - Please don't construe this as a threat. Chose on your own - I'm just > giving my insight. So if say x is chosen - and I dont contribute at least > everone will know why. I've always been transparent, even blunt about my > thoughts. Right > > On the other side MPL allows everyone to just rip off the code, and use > > it in other contexts > > without even giving anything back to the SharpOS project and the open > > source community > > and that is for me not acceptable. > > I perefectly understand your thoughts - but I strongly differ from this. IMO > users should not be coerced into contributing back. Contributions should be > voluntary. But then again - users are free to not use it at all. "Users" are _not_ "coerced" to contribute back. _Developers_ are. So if you are just using the software, it's as if the software was free, but if you are making changes and distributing the software with your changes, then the license applies. You do know that the GPL does not apply if you don't distribute the code to third-parties? -- fury long name: William Lahti handle :: fury freenode :: xfury blog :: http://xfurious.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SharpOS-Developers mailing list SharpOS-Developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sharpos-developers
