On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 the voices made Theo Van Dinter write:
TVD> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:23:44PM +0100, Malte S. Stretz wrote:
TVD> > continues. Nobody can buy an open source project and make it closed source
TVD> > without _all_ it's contributors agreeing on a license change. I for my own
TVD> > won't.
TVD>
TVD> And the license change only effects new code. You can't relicense already
TVD> published code. I'm not going to be closing off my code either, so ...
What NetAss can do, via their employees running this project, is to change the
license somewhat... which won't hurt anyone today, next week or even 3 months
from now... but then someone at NetAss starts doing math of the "what if 50% of
all those uses of free versions actually paid us instead"-kind; and suddenly
they're using their slightly changed license, or bruteforce lawyerpower, to
make it damn hard to use SA.
Might not be enough to force the hardcore open source-community away, but
enough so that you can't use SA in any situation where you're afraid of being
sued (like a corporation).
Maybe this is just paranoid rantings, but after what they did to PGP... who
knows...
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