Hello, * Marc-André Moreau <[email protected]> [20110216 22:58]: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Otavio Salvador > <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 19:30, Jay Sorg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I would like to state that I support with this change. > > > In my experience, the GPL has only created more problems than solutions. > > > It seem like we get all the bad(companies pass us over) and none of > > > the good(changes are not put back upstream). > > > > I disagree. We (O.S. Systems) has been pushing hard to make everything > > on upstream and has been doing good up to now. > > > > > Usual we don't want or can't use the changes anyway so we are just > > > left with the bad. > > > > In this case you're violating GPL (if you put those into products). > > That's the whole point. There are companies who will either find ways around > the GPL virality or will simply violate the GPL without care. Unless you > have the time and energy to pressure those companies into contributing their > code,
I have good ties to the very experienced guys of http://www.gpl-violations.org/ and am more than happy to establish contact and ensure involvement should such a case come to our collective attention. > I don't see much use in having such a viral license. Also, even if you > manage to pressure people into releasing their source code to comply with > the GPL, you probably would not want the code anyway, since it's probably > hackish and specific to certain needs (not ready for contribution or > external use). my FUD alert just went wild ... > I think we should focus on working with the people that are > willing to collaborate than working with people who aren't willing to > collaborate. By switching to permissive licensing, we will get contributions > from people that are actually willing to contribute in the first place. ... and not get code from people who don't want to see their code in commercial-only products anymore. QED. Andreas -- Andreas Kotes, CISSP, CCNA - flatline IT services - ISP & IT Consulting "Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well." -- Vincent van Gogh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
