What do I gain by not using gpl? Commercial use and forking under a license of your choice. The only thing that concerns me using bsd is how to accept contributions that im not merging in safely. Is zend framework concern with bsd and their use of a contrib agreement ?
My employer asked me to make modifications to mw for their use, i chose instead to spend my free time so i can share them with others. I cant use gpl even if i wanted to. On Nov 7, 2011 7:31 PM, "Mark A. Hershberger" mhershberger@wikimedia.org wrote:
Olivier Beaton olivier.beaton@gmail.com writes:
Could you elaborate on that?
Given that I wasn't using the GPL, I was concerned that anyone committing against my code would do so under "all rights reserved" and would effectively be forking my code from the point of their revision. I wanted to make sure the code stayed under my BSD-2-Clause license.
I'm pretty confused by this whole situation.
IANAL, but if you add restrictions such that you require modifications to be under the BSD-2-Clause license, then it seems like you have re-invented dual-licensing with the GPL license without any real benefit. If that is the case, I am not in favor of adding yet-another-licensing-scheme to our repository. But I could be swayed, given the right argument.
What is the pragmatic benefit of your proposed license?
Mark.
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