Re: beta testing version
От | Horst Herb |
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Тема | Re: beta testing version |
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Msg-id | 015001c05d31$b60167e0$fcee2bcb@midgard обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: beta testing version (Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>) |
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Re: beta testing version
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Список | pgsql-hackers |
> > Branding. Phone support lines. Legal departments/Lawsuit prevention. Figuring > > out how to prevent open source from stealing the thunder by duplicating ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > features. And building a _product_. Oops. You didn't really mean that, did you? Could it be that there are some people out there thinking "let them free software fools do the hard initial work, once things are working nicely, we take over, add a few "secret" ingredients, and voila - the commercial product has been created? After reading the statement above I believe that surely most of the honest developers involved in postgres would wish they had chosen GPL as licensing scheme. I agree that most of the work is always done by a few. I also agree that it would be nice if they could get some financial reward for it. But no dirty tricks please. Do not betray the base. Otherwise, the broad developer base will be gone before you even can say "freesoftware". I, for my part, have learned another lesson today. I was just about to give in with the licensing scheme in our project to allow the GPL incompatible OpenSSL to be used. After reading the above now I know it is worth the extra effort to "roll our own" or wait for another GPL'd solution rather than sacrificing the unique protection the GPL gives us. Horst coordinator gnumed project
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