I agree that the GPL and its various versions are confusing. There are projects where the initial developers have taken it private after it being GPLed. And there are several open source projects that are under other licenses, so the portions that are licensed differently needed to be handled differently too.
On the next iteration of GPL, I hope they will address some of the commercialization issues. When I worked for a VOIP company, one of the Asterisk developers was an employee. It did allow us to get bug fixes that were important to us moved up the food chain, and get really expert understanding on some of the esoteric issues. Yes, the code the developer did, did go back into the GPLed source tree, and our boss considered it a good investment, both for insuring access to resources we needed, but also as a 'payback' to the open source community. So if you do make a 'killer new widget' interface for EMC, consider putting it back in the code tree. You will still be the expert. Your customers get their concerns addressed first, and those that are not customers, well you need to spend some time to help them, but don't let it get in the way of paying customers or other needs. (Kind of a hard hearted thought, but it is reality.) Just a few thoughts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
