Hi Pete et al, Good free/open source software projects care about the code hygiene (what bits come from where and are the intellectual property rights respected) and have a contributor agreement which every contributor needs to sign before any of his submitted changes are included in the source tree. It's necessary to preserve the long-term health of the project, and doesn't seem to have stopped people from contributing to these projects in the past :-)
When I decided to open source Quartam PDF Library, one of the steps I took was to derive the Quartam Open Source Contributor Agreement <http://www.quartam.com/qosca.pdf> from from the Oracle Contributor Agreement <http://oss.oracle.com/oca.pdf> to clearly spell out the rules and rights. I can't and won't accept any code changes submitted by someone who hasn't signed the agreement. I have no doubt that RunRev will posit a similar requirement once LiveCode goes open source. Jan Schenkel. ===== Quartam Reports & PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) ________________________________ From: Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 9:03 PM Subject: Re: Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode Thanks Mark. As mentioned, I know nothing of C++ so this isn't going to affect me. But it doesn't seem unreasonable that someone who is willing to contribute code into a free product might feel like they should be compensated should that code be incorporated into a product that costs money. Or perhaps I'm missing the point of open source software. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
