[openbeos] Re: some notes about the license

This is more of concern to BeUnited.org IMO.

François.

En réponse à Marco Zanon <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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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