On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:29:32 +0100 Attila Csipa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On Monday 05 November 2007 22:16:03 Jeffrey Thomas wrote: > > >Why did you pick the Apache v2 open source license? > > > > Correct, its a developer-friendly licenses, as they put it. I prefer the > > GPL because its a USER-friendly license. > > Let's not forget the group of users who were pretty vocal of the advantages > of OpenMoko NOT being completely GPL (i.e. having commercial apps on/linking > to it or it's toolkit). These folks said that they prefer OpenMoko to Qtopia > BECAUSE it did not require them to put their own software under the GPL. > These will be the users who want skin-deep freedom (=freedom for me, not > freedom all users), and that are likely to jump ship. The tough question is > how big this group actually is in the OpenMoko camp. OTOH, OpenMoko might > actually benefit from this, as this also means more OSS exposure to the > general public (even if somewhat skewed by large companies). There are two > reasons a company goes the apache/BSD license way - they don't want to give > back anything to the OSS community OR they do not want to be bothered with > license issues, Google being in the latter group in my impression. the problem is - if we DIDNT have full freedom (i disagree - license like GPL forcing you to GPL your app because it uses a public published API are not free. they are just someone else's idea of freedom. mine is that i can license my app freely as i please and make decisions on GPL vs BSD or whatever as fits me), then ALL these users would go for something like OHA. you alienated a set of users and developers by being so hard-line. :( > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
