On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:01 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 February 2015 at 04:51, Rob Lanphier <ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Also, one cost of copyleft licenses is that they are much, much more > > complicated than permissive licenses. Even though many people feel > > comfortable with the compliance requirements of most OSI-approved > > licenses, the permissive licenses can usually stand alone without an > > FAQ, whereas an FAQ is required for just about all of the copyleft > > licenses. That simplicity reduces a very real barrier to adoption. > > Is this statement from anecdote or data? Otherwise you need to explain > how LibreOffice (copyleft) has fifteen or so companies contributing, > whereas Apache OpenOffice (permissive) has one and even they've given > up actually paying people to work on it. The idea that permissive > works better for getting contributions seems to me completely > unevidenced. OpenOffice's woes are unrelated to its license, it was already dead by forking when Oracle transferred it to Apache, facilitating a change from GPL+proprietary CLA to the Apache license. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
