Re: New licence and driver SDK ?

Le Mercredi 3 Mars 2004 19:34, Alan Coopersmith a écrit :
> nicolas wrote:
> > This point is only there to avoid that the code did not return to the
> > communauty. Also, fork is avoided. Give back the code is the price to pay
> > to reused  GPL code. That's how this system want to work.
>
> Forks have little to do with licenses.  Using the GPL did not stop the
> emacs/xemacs fork, nor did not using GPL cause the FreeBSD/NetBSD fork
> or the long ago X Consortium/XFree86 fork.  In all those cases code has
> freely flowed back and forth between the sibling projects.

It avoid proprietary fork. It avoid to close the code add 1% of line, make it 
uncompatible to keep your customers. That's exactly what append to spice (a 
cad tools, used everywhere but each version is incompatible).

emacs/xemacs forks are from personnal "divergence". FreeBSD/NetBsd is a fork 
to create 2 differents products.

Nicolas