On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On February 11, 2015 at 11:49:15, Bryan Davis (bd...@wikimedia.org) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What is more important: allowing as many people to use our libraries as > possible, or protecting against our libraries from being used in > proprietary software. > > For me, allowing as many people to use our libraries as possible. > For the sake of the discussion, why? > > For me, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. The advantage of > getting more companies to use our libraries is that (maybe) they will > contribute back, similar to what Apple does with LLVM. However, on the > other side of the same coin, we are allowing the possibility that companies > will *not* contribute back, and instead keep their improvements to > themselves (to be clear, I am not implying malicious intent). > > Companies don't need to give back with GPL either, even if they make mods. They only need to do so if they distribute. There's lots of Apache2 projects that have a very large amount of contribution, so maybe this would happen, but I doubt it. Not having to maintain your own fork is a really strong motivator for most companies. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
