Re: [binc] What license should we use for Binc IMAP in the future?

Andy Gayton <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:59:00 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.binc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
> The only reason anyone 
> contributes to BSD licensed projects with their in-house developed 
> extensions is because they're nice guys. ;-).

There are none altruistic motives for companies contributing to open 
source projects; even when not legally required.  If a company adds a 
(for them) crucial feature, by submitting it back to trunk their feature 
gets maintained going into future versions of binc.  If they don't 
contribute the patch back - they need to monkey patch their required 
feature into every revision.  If things go awry with their monkey 
patched version, they're really out on their on as far as community 
support goes.

Andyg.