Re: BSD license vs. Evolution assigment (was Re: Copyright assignment)

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

On tor, 2004-08-05 at 15:43 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 16:32 +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > Imho there is nothing wrong with Novell/Ximian wanting to keep copyright
> > of there own software. And I don't understand the arguing that it's
> > better if anyone (not even contributor) can come and make a proprietary
> > product out of the software than the chance of the company spending the
> > money to develop the product.
> 
> Except that what you contribute is not "their own software". They force
> you to make it theirs in order to accept the contribution. So you are
> participating in a project that uses the GNU GPL... without the
> assurances it would give you.

This was in reply to BSD style license versus GPL + copyright
assignement. Working on a project with BSD style license gives you less
assurances.

Further more when working on a GPL project you can be assured that a
fork of it will always be GPL (same with BSD). I for one don't really
mind if Novell releases a proprietary version of Evolution as long as
there is a GPL version available.

> That is good IMHO, but a company can't be trusted, specially in a
> country where everything can be bought and sold at discount value, 
> even the soul ;)

Isn't the FSF based in the US as well?

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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