Intel and XMir
Posted Sep 20, 2013 14:11 UTC (Fri) by
khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Intel and XMir by dlang
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Intel and XMir
Personally, I have trouble understanding how people can be so opposed to one company making a proprietary product with their code, but seem to be perfectly happy if anyone (including the one company they are complaining about) could do so.
In the last case they are creating digital commons which everyone (yes, including the one company they are complaining about) can use for anything. In the first case they are acting as a unpaid workers and help to produce freemium software package which can/will be sold by one particular company.
and if you really are in this situation, just license your patch under the BSD license and then everyone can make proprietary versions of your code, and include it in codebases with incompatible licenses.
Everyone will be able to use my patch in their own proprietary projects but I will not be able to use their work in my proprietary project? Do you feel it's fair?
Both FSF's and Google's agreements feel “fair” (FSF's one gives noone right to create proprietary forks while Google's one gives everyone right to create proprietary forks) while Canonical's one is most definitely one-sided. BTW people start to be wary of FSF's agreement after GPLv3 fiasco because FSF relicensed their work under terms they don't like while they could do nothing (well, they could always leave GNU project and go back to GPLv2—and some of them actually did that).
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