[openbeos] Re: License

  • From: Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:56:58 -0500

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?  

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

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.



On 2004-02-02 at 09:55:04 [-0500], Mattia Tristo wrote:
> Hi to all,
>             i have read the issue 23 newsletter article entitled "Divisions
> of Pain" and i think that the GPL license is more "secure". What about 
making
> a survey on what license OpenBeOS has to use and take a democratic decision
> based on the survey?
> 
>                                                                             
    
> Mattia

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