[OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

[TimSC]

On 18/07/10 19:11, SteveC wrote:
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> The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first basically lick their lips and want us to go PD so they don't have to contribute anything (in effect make their business easier) and the second think it would be nuts because then the project wouldn't have long term growth potential and would probably die and fragment like BSD did etc etc etc.
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> I'd count the second group as the brighter ones.
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And yet BSD continues to be maintained and updated, while coexisting 
with a similar share-alike project (Linux). So that shows how much most 
companies know. I don't see BSD as much more or less fragmented than 
linux (given the whole Google/Android kernel branch being left to rot.)

Also, if we really cared about share-alike, we would have it apply to 
"produced works" - that would encourage companies to give back.

TimSC