From: Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>,
William Chesters <williamc@dai.ed.ac.uk>,
OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: licence issues
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:40:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990422084057.A18434@maxime.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990420102336.02431@pauillac.inria.fr>; from Xavier Leroy on Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:23:36AM +0200
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:23:36AM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > This is the standard theory of open source economics and I think
> > it's mostly true.
>
> I'm familiar with that theory. By the way, my yougest baby,
> LinuxThreads, is under the LGPL. But it's not a research project,
> just a hobby. The open source economics don't take into account a
> number of factors that are important for research, such as:
>
> - The need to maintain some competitive edge in order to justify one's
> existence (research that doesn't have any edge over what others are
> doing is a contradiction in terms);
>
To support Xavier Leroy here, even the FSF admit that open source models are
not adapted for software that is on the leading edge of technology, altough
they mostly cite voice recognition and other such stuff, i think this apply
also to research based software.
Perhaps a 'research' specific 'free' license would advance this thread ...
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-22 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-16 9:54 Markus Mottl
1999-04-16 16:40 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-04-19 11:56 ` William Chesters
1999-04-20 8:23 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-04-21 19:16 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-21 20:08 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-04-21 21:12 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-23 9:29 ` Sven LUTHER
1999-04-22 6:40 ` Sven LUTHER [this message]
1999-04-19 13:22 ` Sven LUTHER
1999-04-16 16:41 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-19 11:55 ` Michel Mauny
1999-04-19 17:53 ` Pierre Weis
1999-04-20 9:24 ` Dave Berry
1999-04-22 6:43 ` Sven LUTHER
1999-04-22 9:20 ` Dave Berry
1999-04-21 9:38 ` Sven LUTHER
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