[ILUG-BOM] BSD

[jtd]

On Thursday 17 August 2006 02:07 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> On 17/08/06 12:31 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote:
> > The BSD, Apache, MIT, etc. licences work because of a simple
> > model. They allow you to take without giving back, but they
> > ensure that unless you give back, your code will be so far out of
> > sync with HEAD that you spend more money merging the latest
> > changes into your code than you would spend in merging your
> > changes back to HEAD.
>
> Which works on the assumption that people using/deriving BSD code
> want to stay in sync with HEAD.
>
> I don't know of too many projects doing this. They usually use the
> BSD stuff as a way to get to a running start, but not much beyond
> that.

Market share that's all tey care about. Finished Closed apps would not 
even qualify as beta. So working bsd app would outlive the product 
life cycle. After which u launch a new model with the latest and 
greatest from HEAD. If the source was open any reseller with gcc 
would be able to fix bugs effectively killing the new improved model.

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Rgds
JTD