On Monday 03 Jan 2011, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
precisely - what sustains an open source project is
nothing to do
with the license. It is all about the methodology of development.
Develop in the open - accept contributions and build a base of
developers. The larger the base, the more secure the app is from
hostile take over. Developing in a closet will result in the app
being in danger of take over. Sqllite is developed with no license -
it is in the public domain. Apache, postgresql and many many others
are developed in BSD style licenses - but since they are developed
in the open with a large base of contributors, they are also immune
to take over - too many copyright owners.
So what exactly does this have to do with your original point vis-a-vis
MySQL and GPL? As far as I can see, now you're talking about something
else altogether. Please do enlighten me on how this has any
relationship at all to your earlier statement (which I had responded
to):
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 03:20 +0530, Narendra Sisodiya
wrote:
I don't have problem with BSD and nor with
GPL. but I love GPL. but
If somebody says that GPL is restriction to freedom then I must
oppose because
it is not true. GPL and viral license are designed so that evil
company guys
do not get extra-benefits over it. which is acceptable.
like what happened to mysql
Can you please be more clear: are we discussing the merits/demerits of
licences, are we discussing copyright assignments, or are we discussing
development methodologies? They are distinct (if related) fields, and
I'd be glad to discuss any of them, if you could from e-mail to e-mail
be consistent on which one is under discussion.
An interesting thing is the so-called dual-licensed
projects. Having
a 'community' edition with limited functionality to serve a bait to
buy the 'full version' which is proprietary. This is usually a
massive con job. And strangely enough 99% of dual licensed projects
use the GPL. I wonder why.
Anyone with half a clue about licensing would understand why dual-
licence entities prefer the GPL. Again, I'd be glad to discuss it, but
I'm sure the next mail would be about some unrelated topic and nothing
to do with anything discussed earlier in this thread, so I'll just save
myself the effort.
Regards,
-- Raj
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