Don't start this discussion again. :) It's already soft-of decided that web2py will remain GPL.
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Wikus van de Merwe <dupakrop...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Why GPL is discouraging users? Is it the case that Drupal, Wordpress > or Joomla have no users? They are all released on GPL terms. Moreover, > they consider themes and plugins to be derivative work and as such > they have to be released on GPL terms if distributed. Still, thousands > of plugins and themes have been made. > > Pay close attention here, *if* distributed. In common web development > scenario where expected end product is the working web application > deployed on some server, the application code is not distributed but > simply used and doesn't have to be released on GPL terms. In those > rare cases where client specifically require the source code as she > wants to deploy the application on her own, you release the code on > GPL terms but to her only. She paid for it's creation anyway right? > > And with web2py, thanks to exceptions, you don't even have to do that. > Application code is not considered to be a derivative work. But > changes to the framework and works build on top of it are (that is, > *if* distributed). So again, you can have your own specialised version > of web2py running on some servers, but you cannot make a proprietary > fork of web2py. And this will be allowed by non-copyleft licences such > as modified BSD licence or X11 licence. > > Now, those who would benefit from a proprietary fork are not the > users. And in that sense, by not allowing the community fragmentation > around a number of different less or more commercial oriented forks > the GPL helps to create a good framework, as it keeps the community > together. > > So as I just showed to you, GPL is a non-issue for the users and > protects the freedom of the framework much better than non-copyleft > licences would. Your only argument being "the other Python frameworks > use non-copyleft licences" is not convincing. Statistic != merit. -- Branko Vukelić bg.bra...@gmail.com stu...@brankovukelic.com Check out my blog: http://www.brankovukelic.com/ Check out my portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) I hang out on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/foxbunny Gimp Brushmakers Guild http://bit.ly/gbg-group
