On Jun 5, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote: > > I'm first and foremost an end user, so I'm not concerned about the license as > far this doesn't allow corporations like IBM to keep their predatory attitude > vs end users. > > So, my stance for copyleft is very practical: proprietary software predates > basic end users, like myself, obfuscating problems and code, and I think that > the only way to avoid this is to force corporations to use copyleft (I know, > they'll never accept, but at ths point I prefer them to pay for all the > development and related activities). >
Well, my opinion is that by having a non-copyleft version available, it removes the incentive for commercial entities to create their own versions, which will be obviously totally proprietary. Putting it another way, if the only open source version is copyleft, then you will not see commercial entities use it, simply because it requires their own "secret sauce" bits to be forcibly donated. So they won't use it at all and, instead, create their own from scratch. And there is risk associated with that... See http://httpd.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html especially the 'Why Apache Software is Free' version. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted