Draft 1 of the OpenDesk.com Public Source License
David Starner
dvdeug at x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu
Thu Nov 18 04:38:49 UTC 1999
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 07:56:02PM -0800, Arandir wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, David Starner wrote:
>
> > > This is equivalent to forking the project at the start, unless you add
> > > an addendum to the GPL that stipulates that GPL contributors permit you
> > > to take their changes and re-release them under the APSL clone. Of
> > > course, then it's not GPL anymore.
> >
> > It's possible that it will get forked. Of course, that's possible with
> > any license that's not a copyleft.
>
> Copyleft can get forked just as easily. Compare GNU emacs versus XEmacs.
Not just as easily. RMS could, at any time, merge in any changes from XEmacs
to GNU Emacs. He just choses not to. (He has his reasons, but it is his
choice.) With a copyleft, you can always merge in their changes if you chose
to.
(Please don't CC on lists. Thanks.)
--
David Starner - dstarner98 at aasaa.ofe.org
I see no trend at all, except toward women playing mean and ugly
sociopaths who are good at killing and who enjoy dark powers. Maybe
it's just my friends?
-- Dr. Kromm, on who plays what type of character in RPGs
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