On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 11:44:00PM +0200, Ilya Shpan'kov wrote: > I will inform our lawers about your opinion. Really, it have a very big > sense. > > I can say, that here in Opera we had discussions about being Free > Software every year. Unfortunately, we have a lot of agreements with > other companies which use Opera at their devices - by this case we still > can't to be a real free Software.
If you mean you are using 3rd party code which is licensed to you under proprietary terms - there is not much you can do I guess. If you mean you and your partners rely on commercial exploitation of (some of) the features of Opera - there is always the possibility of dual-licensing the code to GPL/Proprietary together with forced copyright assignments (so Opera retains control of the general direction and can relicense/exploit the code). This way, no other company can exploit the code in a proprietary way (or has to disclose their modifications) while Opera still can (as the code owner through the alternative proprietary license). Whether you attract a lot of outside developers this way (due to truely free alternatives like Webkit and Gecko) is a different matter, of course. regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
