[discuss] Re: Re: Patch acceptance [Was: Has sun sacked half its developers?]

2005-04-26 Thread Andrew Brown
Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Let's take an example from the writing profession. Suppose you write a > good book. Would you like credit for it? Would you like people who > distribute it to do so under an open license? Or perhaps you want a > portion of t

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Patch acceptance [Was: Has sun sacked half its developers?]

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Andrew Brown wrote: To the exttent that open source stuff is like folk music, it is built in that people will use it in ways which the originators would dislike. But within certain parameters. For example, by far the most popular license is the GPL. This license doesn't allow you to just do whate