On 06/01/11 00:37, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
Most people contributing to free software/free data
projects probably have the opposite opinion.
[citation needed]
There are projects like
Mozilla, Qt or some FSF's projects that also request the right to
relicense by a single body but they're in minority.
Apache as well.
Many of the most successful projects apart from the Linux kernel in fact.
They may be in the numerical minority, but they are the most used and
most successful and most influential projects.
Most other
projects called open have it as a basic philosophical point that
everything is owned by the contributors and no single body owns the
rights to all of the content (unless it has created all of it). The
facebook/google mapmaker/(pick your favourite proprietary
service)-model is the last thing we'd like in our projects and
practice shows that projects can live very well in the open model.
What makes proprietary projects proprietary is the fact that they are
proprietary, not the fact that a single body has the ability to defend
the project against being made proprietary.
Assignment to a trusted third party and fragmentation of rights in a
project are just two different ways of making a project common property.
- Rob.
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