[openbeos] Re: License

>I find the wording particularly interesting. What do you mean by "secure"? I 
>would guess probably not the computer security meaning. The usual complaint 
>that people have about MIT/BSD (with respect to GPL) is that people might 
>come along and "steal" our code and use it in a commerical product. Is this 
>your concern? 

Yes, something like this.

>If it is, let me state clearly: "Let Them!". 

Yes, why not, but what i was thinking is that it's a great thing to have a 
lot of user but it is also a great thing to have a community that grows 
always.

>In any case, the amount of time and effort to re-license our 2 million lines 
>of code from (guessing) 40 different authors would not be worthwhile without 
>some radically earth shaking news.

Ah, i didn't know that change license would be a big work.

                                                                            
Mattia

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