On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Andreas Volz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems the license question is still very much discussed. Until now I > didn't say much about it. But now I like to add my 2 cents to that > topic. > > At work we develop software for embedded devices. In most cases is the > result a commercial closed-source product. > > For sure we used open source software in the past (not based on EFL > until now!). So GPL is no option. The LGPL would be an option. But > in most cases it's not an option as good as BSD (better say MIT). The > reason is that in most cases it's needed to modify the library itself. > For example if there's a Win32 and a Linux port, but no WinCE port. For > sure one could contribute the changes back to the open source project. > But in most cases this doesn't happen because of time or interest.
This is exactly what companies that contribute back, like ProFUSION and others, dislike. We do contribute back and we expect that others do that, we want others to play fair. This might not be a problem for u as an individual developer that writes code on free time and don't care about that. But for us, we release the software expecting to improve the projects we've used, but we don't like competitors taking advantage of that and never giving back. This is up to a point that people already talked in private about forking useful EFL libraries and licensing the projects [not the files] as LGPL, then when adding or fixing code one can choose to put those into new files that are LGPL and gradually replace all or most BSD with LGPL. This just didn't happen because most of us want to avoid this fork, my bet is that it will be bad to everyone. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
