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April 19, 2005
What does Freedom mean?
Listening to the ongoing debates surrounding Solaris going open. The frame around open source means. This postwent through my aggregator.
Nethertheless licences associated with open source may have implications for developers wether and how open source code can be reused. And these legal implications are actually enforced in front of courts. Companies which want to use open source in their own products but maintain their own intellectual property have to consider which open source license to use: The CDDL under which OpenSolaris is licensed is the right approach for such companies - the GPL is not. There is an ongoing debate around the right open source license with some critical misconceptions. In an open world the key to freedom is choice - and this also applies to open source licensing. The GPL with its viral character fails to acknowledge this.
It is choice? or is it the freedom to see and be transparency.
What about the right of original authors to choose how their code is used.
Anyways this is an ongoing debate.
Posted by Kaliya at April 19, 2005 02:42 PM