[openbeos] Re: [Glasselevator-talk] Re: Glasselevator-talkdigest, Vol 1 #3 - 3 msgs (themes and other apps)...
- From: Andy Satori <dru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: OpenBEOS <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:09:44 -0500
Not to sound like an ass, but OSS and Control are mutually exclusive terms.
Once you place that code under an OpenSource license, it's no longer under
your control. It's under the control of the community that uses it. If you
have a 'look and feel' but another dev wants something different, they
simply hack apart your pretty and time consuming UI elements, throw them on
the floor and replace them with their own. And for your efforts you might
get a note in the README, and that assumes you release under a GPL variant
the enforces that.
Given all of that, and the state of how badly the OSS licenses are actually
adhered to. Go ask the author of Fink, or a number of other OSS authors
about the efforts required to pursue people that abuse OSS and the GPL
variants. I'm sorry but if you think you can control OSS code, you are
delusional. You can 'guide' but not control.
Andy Satori
On 1/14/02 4:42 AM, "Ithamar R. Adema" <ithamar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So, lets keep as much _control_ over _what_ we develop and _how_ in
> our
> own project, but make the discussion open to outside parties..... (as
> we've always done up till now)....
>
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