> on 10/29/2000 7:57 PM, "Nick Bauman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Right: we aren't talking about fine wine, rare stamps or gold boullion
> > here. The code has to move and be moveable to live, to be of value.
>
Exactly. Code is not important. People are. You may think a large
company can "steal" your code becouse they have more _coding_power_ that
you have but as I already told you I don't belive this can ever happend
becouse there is no company that has more _brain_power_ than an open
source comunity.
> > Marc insists that GPL protects young code. I don't buy that either.
what does it means "GPL protect my code"?
As you know I'd like to use jbos proxy generation code for avalon but I
can't for GPL is specifically designed to prevent this. Now why you
think this could damage jboss? IMNSHO such a code sharing can just
advantage both of us. I get good code and provide better features to
avalon (without forcing JDK1.3) and you get credits. Don't you like the
idea that everybody is using your code becouse it's good code? Isn't
this the best reward for a developer?
You may think I'm a good guy so I will give credit but there are many
bad guys around like in corporate that can steal you code and not give
credit.
But:
- APL is designed for this
- nobody can hide such a thing from the comunity
- if your code is really good company will be happy to say "our product
is based on jboss code!".
So again I don't see any good reason for keeping this code GPL but I can
see many many reason not to do that.
Federico
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