17 Aug
2006
17 Aug
'06
7:13 a.m.
On 8/17/06, Philip Tellis philip.tellis@gmx.net wrote:
The BSD, Apache, MIT, etc. licences work because of a simple model. They allow you to take without giving back, but they ensure that unless you give back, your code will be so far out of sync with HEAD that you spend more money merging the latest changes into your code than you would spend in merging your changes back to HEAD.
The same applies to GPL code as well doesn't it ? A case in example is vendor supplied drivers in the Linux kernel. The choice for them is to maintain it themselves or give it back to the community and let them maintain it.
-- Vinayak