On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 19:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 02/01/2011 03:26 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 14:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >>>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html > >>> this mail has nothing whatsoever to do with license or > contributing > >> back > >>> or anything. > >> I am not relying only on the mail. Feel free to talk to the > NetBSD > > they are saying that the failure of netbsd is due to the wrong > license? > > Not the wrong license but the license does impact the nature of > development among other things. > >
you are evading the point. First you say netbsd is in doldrums due to the BSD license where people are allowed to fork and not contribute back. Then you quote a reference that has nothing to do with the license and attributes the problem to bad management - locking features so that only one person can work on it, and out of frustration people are forking or not contributing. When this is pointed out you say 'talk to NetBSD folk' - implying that they have told you that it is due to the license. Now you say license impact the nature of development among other things. Obviously it does - but in a minor way. the key thing that impacts development is the number and quality of developers. The more the developers or the better the developers, the better the development - regardless of license. If you work well with your developers and make them feel at home - and at the same time you have strong vision and clear goals, you get a great project. We had a discussion on the list some time back which showed that the development of GCC etc was for a long time hindered by RMS's attitude and only took off when he was kicked upstairs. Apache and it's family does great because they attract and keep developers with apache license, python does the same with BSD license, linux does the same with GPL. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
