RE: AW: License proposal

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 06:18, Jacob Kjome wrote:

> At 01:33 PM 1/8/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >With BSD, you basically have zero say in what happens to the code, downstream.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> Imagine a scenario where some company takes the Barracuda code, forks it, 
> calls it "Subverta", markets the hell out of it, and it starts to gain 
> mindshare.  Now the Barracuda project is left holding the bag because it is 
> incompatible with the heavily marketed Subverta product and who want to 
> waste time with an incompatible version of a popular software package?
> 
> I'm not saying that this is likely to happen, but who knows?  I never 
> guessed we'd ever get the source back from Lutris, so who is to say how 
> likely something is?  The LGPL simply guarantees that this can't 
> happen.  If we want Barracuda to be free and protected for use by the 
> Barracuda community then no license other than the LGPL is appropriate.
> 
> Jake


+1 from me!