Re: Re: Re: AW: License proposal

Quoting Thorsten Möller <[email protected]>:

> 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.
> 

Sorry, I was just trying to point out the fact that innovation is not being
limited currently, so I don't see why it would seem to be limited if Barracuda
was under the LGPL?  Didn't mean to make it sound emotional, although it does
sound like it upon a re-reading.

> 
> > 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.
> 

Point taken.  There is little fear of the BSD out there, but that is probably
because is is pretty much a sieve of a license.  It doesn't do much of anything.
 Why would anyone fear a license that allows them to do whatever they want with
the code, including subverting the original project...however unlikely that is.

Jake

> 
> Regards,
> Thorsten
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Barracuda mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://barracudamvc.org/lists/listinfo/barracuda