On 24/03/2010 15:34, Matt Turner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamik...@bsdforen.de> wrote: >> On 23/03/2010 23:54, Zachary wrote: >>> In my other pursuits I ended up interviewing LordHavoc (Forest Hale) about >>> this >>> and thought you guys might be interested too: >>> http://timedoctor.org/2010/03/forest-hale-interview-about-nexuiz-and-open-source/ >>> >>> Hopefully this will put to rest the majority of the issues people have with >>> the commercial >>> version of Nexuiz >> >> It's kinda sad that people didn't relicense their patches. >> >> This is just why I prefer the 2-clause BSD license. It would have >> spared them the need to reimplement everything. Now the GPL is >> preventing them from getting contributions from a commercial entity. > > Good God. > > _This_ is what you think the solution is? You feel bad for the _company_?
Well, I feel bad for both parties. The GPL project won't get any contributions and the company has a lot of redundant work - what a waste of time. > On, just use the 2-clause BSD so that some company can copy all your > code, without your consent, or even knowledge, and make a commercial > application from it for the financial benefit of themselves? By using 2-clause BSD I give them my consent. I don't need knowledge or financial benefit. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
