Re: [atlas-devel] ATLAS license discussion, please
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From: john s. <sk...@us...> - 2011-09-05 01:42:00
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On 05/09/2011, at 2:49 AM, Andrew Cross wrote: >. allowing commercial use of a project ultimately should enouncourage more development of it and not the opposite. I think this is dependent on the use. Some users will be using "as is" with a few generalisations, a few bug fixes, some deletions (don't want to support that part) and perhaps some additions: such a use is well suited to "contributing back" to the library and working with the original developers. But there are other circumstances, for example I guess Apple modifying gcc is making environmental changes to suit OSX environment and XCode Gui which is of little use to others, but too hard to separate from the formerly mentioned kinds of modifications to contribute anything back. And then there's the extreme hassle of communicating with open source developers in an effective manner: patches are a very bad way to do this. Even using Git makes contributions difficult to manage: the easiest way, direct write access to repository requires considerable trust. So one can end up with forks where the ability to contribute is lost. -- john skaller sk...@us... |