Well see, GPL itself, while some might argue, is not a "bad" license. It actually keeps the spirit of open source quite alive as it restricts any company to just take the code and using it in a closed source project.
We are currently seeing the benefit of the GPL license with the whole Oracle / Sun (MySQL) acquisition. Oracle (if they want to let MySQL die or not is not within this email) can not just kill off MySQL. There have already been forks from the code made and published under different names. One of them is MariaDB (http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB_versus_MySQL) and looks quite promising. Now when it comes down to a application engine the GPL might not always be the best license, because it only allows you to bundle the GPL server (in this case OpenBD) if your application is also GPL'ed. This might be good for the spirit of open source, but not for the wide spread usage of the engine server itself. So, there is actually a dilemma that is upon us (I'm NOT speaking for the Steering Committee here), we want that developers (not only CFML ones) can use OpenBD in all projects and at the same time want to protect the core of OpenBD to not being used by anyone to misuse it. As Alan already mentioned, we will make this possible in the next major release. Kind Regards, Nitai On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > Let the minutes of your future discussions note that I don't think this is > such a bad thing. > >> >> if you bundle your code with openbd then it would have to be GPL as well. >> Note that the deciding factor is the bundling. Just running CFML code on >> OpenBD does not mean it needs to be GPL. >> > > -- > Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List > http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon > mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > > !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !! > -- See for yourself how easy it is to manage files today. Join the revolution! Razuna SaaS On-Demand - Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution http://www.razuna.com/ Razuna - Open Source Digital Asset Management http://www.razuna.org/ Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/razunahq -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
