Draft 1 of the OpenDesk.com Public Source License

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Sat Nov 20 22:05:03 UTC 1999


From: Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez at apple.com>
> Dude, did you hit your head on something?  Most of Darwin is  
> external contributions.

Don't fake me out, dude. Those came before the APSL, and were for the most
part ARPA-funded and under the BSD license.

> As for the stuff that originates at Apple:  NetInfo was ported to  
> Linux within weeks of its release.  The Streaming Server is running  
> on Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux, and there are people working on  
> cleaning up the proxy code. OpenPlay is up and going on Windows, and  
> we've made an external developer the tech lead for OpenPlay; he's our  
> first outside developer to run one of our projects, and quite likely  

All of the action reported here is people porting your code away from
your own platform. Who is helping _you_?

> So you're telling Open Desk to dual license their code so you can  
> make a GPL version that they won't be able to use any more unless  
> they swallow the GPL. 

No, actually I'd rather they use a straight GPL so that they get _all_
of the code back, as does everybody else. But I'm willing to compromise
if they won't do that.

	Thanks

	Bruce



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