The VM community shared a lot more code before people started worrying ab out licensing. I don't remember anyone making money off of the Waterloo Mods.
/Tom Kern On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:27:35 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yeah, but WHICH LICENSE? There are a LOT of them. And the rights granted >and responsibilities required can vary greatly. For true community >software, I am a GPL bigot. It forces anyone who modifies the code AND >DISTRIBUTES IT to make the changes public so that everybody can benefit >from them and extend it futher. It does not force a person who modifies >the code, but does not distribute it to make his personal changes >available. However, companies tend to like the ones which allow them to >take the code, modify it, distribute the modified binary (usually for a >fee) and not disclose their changes. I.e. it lets companies "modify and >monitize" the original source, without giving much of anything back. > >-- >John McKown >Senior Systems Programmer >HealthMarkets >Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage >Administrative Services Group >Information Technology
