Dear Pedro,
On Monday 05 December 2011 13.06:29 Pedro R. Benito da Rocha wrote:
> I was talking about GPL vs AGPL, not BSD ;-)
Ah, a misunderstanding, it seems. So you actually meant to say that you are
happy with the proposal to see Roundcube move from a "pure GPL" to a "GPL with
explicit exceptions for some proprietary use cases", then?
> 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.
Are you really using a proprietary means of authentication?
I'd be curious about that use case, to be honest. :)
> 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
Please note that the GPL does not mandate you release all source code all the
time, neither does the AGPL, for that matter.
> 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.
FWIW, I think it is always important to differentiate between proprietary and
commercial. What we do is no less commercial than what some large companies
are doing. But it is a lot less proprietary.
See
http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p!6
http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p47
for some additional information.
Best regards,
Georg
P.S. <totally off topic>
> Universidad de Burgos (España)
Ahhh... from the place of the awesome Morcilla.
I'll use this conversation as an excuse to drop by next time I'm around. ;)
</totally off topic>
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