From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: Re: "Open Core" and the Ada Community
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:01:21 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2016-01-07T11:01:21-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f555f5e-12aa-45a0-8ee8-ace51d6f0313@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n6ma99$7cb$1@news.albasani.net>
<<I don't think it has. The essential point in Kuhn's post is that people can
still fork the GPL-licensed codebase and re-implement the proprietary parts
they need themselves. That's still impossible with a BSD licensed codebase
that has been turned proprietary.>>
No that was not the essential point of the article at all. It was that despite being GPL it is possible to use the GPL in ways that restric others rights.
His "essential point" was that developers should not allow homogeonization of the copyright to help reduce the risks of that. "start contributing to the code with your own copyrights, licensed under GPL"
The Ada community has seen claims of full rights for AdaCore to do as they please and enable and empower their claims to various licensing scenarios they use.
<<So there's no crippling of new development and innovation at all. It's just
a bit slowed down ;)>>
When developers know their work will be encumbered for use by others in licensing games or otherwise the "core" has been booby trapped they hold back from development and innovation. It is not just slowed down it is often stopped or never started.
<<Bye...>>
I am a proponent and author of open source for Ada, one of the few remaining. Someone has to care and speak up regularly. Things can not get swept under the rug.
David Botton
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-07 2:37 "Open Core" and the Ada Community David Botton
2016-01-07 18:20 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2016-01-07 19:01 ` David Botton [this message]
2016-01-07 19:44 ` David Botton
2016-01-07 20:53 ` Simon Wright
2016-01-08 16:50 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2016-01-07 20:22 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-08 8:36 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2016-01-09 19:08 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-09 19:23 ` Luke A. Guest
2016-01-09 20:52 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-10 1:51 ` Paul Rubin
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