Draft 1 of the OpenDesk.com Public Source License
David Starner
dstarner98 at aasaa.ofe.org
Thu Nov 18 16:29:24 UTC 1999
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 11:47:14PM -0800, Arandir wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, David Starner wrote:
> > 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.
>
> But what makes this situation different from non-copyleft Free Software? In the
> cases of BSD, MIT and Artistic, the changes can be merged into the forks no
> problem. Cross-pollination is not limited to GNU licensed programs.
Go ahead. Merge in the changes for Solaris's version of X. Hope you've got
a good decompiler, because there's no source available. You also might also
want to take a look at Sun's license - I believe it reads "All rights
reserved."
> Whether a project forks or not seems to be determined by factors very distant
> from the specific licenses.
OTOH, the prototypical massively forked project is BSD, with dozens of
forked proprietary Unix's based off it.
--
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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