Re: Re: AW: License proposal

Jacob Kjome <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anyone want to volunteer to be a Barracuda evangelist?
If one would ask me, certainly I would.

>> Anyway, the BSD makes sure
>> that you know where code originates from. And yes, the argument of
>> sometimes hated Bill Gates is true here: many Open Source Licenses
>> curb innovation.
>
> How so?  How many times have you seen Barracuda developers rejecting
> valuable contributions, rejecting innovation?  Are you suggesting
> that Christian, Diez, me or Shawn are holding back innovation?
Please don't mix up things in such emotional way. I just answer with pretty
your words: Who said that I want to reject innovation? I certainly didn't.
And I never wanted to take the merits of the founders into question! What I
wanted to say is that it is not a matter of the licence how popular a
project is.


> BSD is an open source license.  LGPL is a free software license.  We
> have to decide if we want Barracuda to always be free and avoid
> subversion by any single party.  If this is not a goal, then BSD is
> fine.
I'm not against a decision to choose LGPL. Maybe I'm more on the open source
side. And I don't believe that one has to fear subversion even with BSD.


Regards,
Thorsten