[sldev] ESC exempt from open source and GPL licensing?

[Tateru Nino]

Dale Glass wrote:
> On Saturday 10 November 2007 16:44:13 Hamncheese wrote:
>   
>> There are only a couple of people involved in this community that
>> deserve to bitch about commercial companies profiting off their hard
>> work. And if you know what I'm talking about then you will also know
>> that they have enough community following to launch their own viewer
>> with great success. I'm not belittling any contributions anyone has made
>> but let's get real about this.
>>
>> As my grandpa used to say..."Put up or shut up." :)
>>     
>
> Doesn't work that way though.
>
> You can't perform work without an agreement that you'll be compensated for 
> it, then suddenly demand payment. This works for both things like mowing 
> somebody's lawn without being asked, and submitting patches after signing 
> a "you give us permission to do anything we want with the code" agreement.
>
> So really, if you expect to get anything out of it, it's best not to do 
> anything until the conditions are to your liking.
>   
And technically you _are_ being compensated. But not in money.
But seriously, you shouldn't be doing open source coding of any sort if you're not getting what you want out of it. For most people, it's the sharing of the workload that makes for a better piece of software for everyone.

It makes me wonder how the people who wrote the BSD-licensed source code that is used in the Windows distribution feel. Actually - I know - I spoke to a couple of them and they didn't mind.

"If I minded, I would have contributed to a different project under a different set of licenses."


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Tateru Nino
http://dwellonit.blogspot.com/