[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Peter S Galbraith writes: > > I convinced a friend to release his software under a free license, but he > > wanted protection in case he later decide to commercialize a version of > > his software. > > Protection from what?
Suppose it's under GPL and people send it large patches. He then has to track those patches and remove them from a derived product sold under a different license (Since, as I understand it, he would not be author of the patches and would lose control over that code.) It's a security blanket. He's not likely to ever sell it. He's been hacking on this and giving away without specifying a license for 8 years now. I asked him to formalize a license so that I could package it for Debian (it's my most-used application nest to Emacs). > > The result is as follows (can it go in main? if not, what should we > > change?) > > Looks ok. Thanks for your time. Peter
