Hello,
I was talking about GPL vs AGPL, not BSD ;-)
As I could understand (I'm not english and some terms are not easy to
me) ther are two major problems: one is the use of RC on commercial
systems, and other is the developing of plugins and some other parts of RC.
Let me give an example: I need to write a plugin for authentication,
because we use own authentication routines, and this code is not useful
for nobody else. Also the code may be protected because some parts are
developed by a software company. Under some licenses I never could use
RC because if I use this plugin I have to relase all source and I can't
because some parts have a commercial license (here are called commercial
secrets and/or intellectual property).
Is that I care about.
Some contributors like to release his code under very less protective
licenses, like BSD, and others not, but "that's life" :-)
Best regards,
Pedro
El 05/12/11 11:30, Georg C. F. Greve escribió:
> Dear Pedro,
>
> it is not clear to me how a license that explicitly says it is okay not to
> contribute back would increase the numbers of contributions back to Roundcube.
>
> From our perspective as a commercial entity, we have contributed quite a bit
> of code for the 0.7 release, and might not have done that under a weaker
> license, as we prefer an even footing for all contributors.
>
> So we would likely not agree to a less protective or balanced license.
>
> That said, I don't think that is even a theoretical option. Roundcube
> incorporates some major third-party contributions under the GPL which are not
> easily relicensed, and obtaining permission from each and everyone one of the
> upstream contributors is likely an impossible undertaking.
>
> You are of course welcome to re-write all those parts under a BSD license,
> but
> as a commercial entity we would probably hesitate to contribute to that
> effort.
>
> Best regards,
> Georg
>
>
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