On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 20:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > run the show. This is the BSD style of development - but apparently > the > > GPL guys do things differently - can you enlighten us how and in > what > > way their nature of development is different? > > > > You are describing governance. I wasn't referring to that. GPL'ed > and BSD > codebases might have very similar governance structures and the nature > of > the license doesn't necessarily affect that. By nature of > development, I > meant, the motivations of the developers who participate tends to be > different. One of the best explanations on how they differ is > > http://webmink.com/essays/causality/
this sounds great: <quote> The BSD-ish view is systemic, believing that any innovative user of the code will want to add their improvements to the commons so that the community around the commons will maintain them collectively, freeing the innovator to spend time elsewhere. In this view, proprietary uses of software will eventually result in contribution to the commons since to behave otherwise is less effective. This is the view the Apache Software Foundation best expresses, and it clearly works well for them. They have large numbers of participants in a large number of successful projects, and there is no “tragedy of the commons” at work – self-interest does not imply or require selfishness. It is in the interests of every participant to contribute their work to the commons upon which the fragment of their interests relates. Doing so reduces their own costs, increases the surface upon which the community innovates and gives the maximum return. People who don’t add their work to the commons are condemned to maintain their own work, alone, for ever… </quote> strange - I got the impression you were pro 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
