I would tend to agree. My theory is usually those who want to give back will no matter what the license is. I'm all for switching over to a "free" license, if it'll get RIFE more deployments.
Cheers, Tyler On 7/25/07, Geert Bevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, from looking at the history, I don't think that the code > contributions up to now have had anything to do with the fact that > it's a copy-left license. It has mostly been people that never > intended to redistribute RIFE by themselves, so there were never any > obligations to contribute back. While I am a proponent of copy-left > licenses since I think that it's normal to give back when you receive > the whole thing for free, I'm starting to think though that it > actually doesn't make much difference in practice. So nowadays I'm > starting to think that reducing the user-base due to more a > restrictive license, is worse than the risk of someone not > contributing back. > > On 25 Jul 2007, at 16:43, Tyler Pitchford wrote: > > > > > I guess I would say which is more important? Code contributions (if > > you're getting any from the license) / the ability to request those > > contributions or a bigger install base? I'm personally ok with any > > license except the GPL (now that's hard to get through legal). > > > > Cheers, > > Tyler > > > > On 7/25/07, Geert Bevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> over the years I've had several discussions about the license that is > >> used by RIFE. It seems that a lot of people have problems getting > >> LGPL > >> or CDDL through legal at their company. There are also quite some > >> developers that only want to work on Apache or BSD-style licenses. > >> > >> What do you think about RIFE's license. Should I change it to > >> Apache 2? > >> > >> Geert > >> > >> -- > >> Geert Bevin > >> Terracotta - http://www.terracotta.org > >> Uwyn "Use what you need" - http://uwyn.com > >> RIFE Java application framework - http://rifers.org > >> Music and words - http://gbevin.com > >> > >> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > -- > Geert Bevin > Terracotta - http://www.terracotta.org > Uwyn "Use what you need" - http://uwyn.com > RIFE Java application framework - http://rifers.org > Music and words - http://gbevin.com > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rife-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rife-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
