Hello Roy!
The question for you, Roy, is how well would the Eclipse Public License for
ArgoUML protect your interests. Would that be a good enough?
If I understand correctly, what could happen with the Eclipse Public License
is that Some Big Company could use ArgoUML as a platform for some other
tool, providing the additions to the core ArgoUML back to the ArgoUML
project while keeping their addition, containing their business edge for
themselves. If this is what you want to prevent with the GPL license then I
am not sure I agree. I would still like to give companies the opportunity to
build extensions that they keep to themselves.
/Linus
2007/11/1, Tom Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I've been pushing for the Eclipse Public License because it seems to
> me to be a good balance between protecting commercial entities
> interested in doing extensions while at the same time building the
> core value of the commons by requiring bug fixes and modifications to
> the core to be contributed back to the community.
>
> Are there reasons that you think GPL is better than EPL?
>
> Because the GPL and EPL are incompatible, it's important for us to
> make the right choice up front. Choosing EPL means that we have to
> forgo the use of any useful GPL code, but we've done without it so
> far, so this doesn't seem to be a big issue.
>
> Tom
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