[openbeos] some notes about the license

Hi all,

I've just read that many of you are concerned about the MIT 
license which allows proprietary software to "steal" OBOS code 
without giving anything back.

In my opinion, we should be worried about something much more 
dangerous: fragmentation.
I'm somewhat 'obsessed' by this problem... :)

To me, we should change the license and add some clauses to deny 
the right to duplicate the whole work making little changes and 
renaming the product.

In other words, we already avoided the fragmentation of packages 
(because OBOS comes with a full operating system, not like the 
Linux world where they have 12 window managers and so on), but 
I'd like to avoid the fragmentation of distributions too, which 
could - in some years - break the compatibility and confuse 
users.

Or, if you really don't want to change a little the license, we 
could add - when OBOS R1 will be ready - a specific page on the 
site inviting everyone who has some ideas to discuss with us 
instead of forking OBOS...

thanks :)

Marco Zanon [http://www.marcozanon.com]

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