Re: powerEXT - Clarifications from the author

I had this discussion with a CFO once. He had no problem taking from
Open Source but got all wierded out about contributing. I eventually
convinced him of the obvious advantages and as a reasonably intelligent
individual he reviewed the licenses at the time and agreed to let the
developers contribute.

Hey, if IBM legal can turn Eclipse loose in the Open Source community
that's enough of a litmus test for me!


Regards,

Mike

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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 11:18 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] powerEXT - Clarifications from the author

But do you really think licensing is the reason? I just think the
majority
of RPG coders aren't interested in it because all of their basic needs
were
met up until 8 to 10 years ago.

I would be curious to know how much the GPL v3 language (that forces
changes
to be contributed back) actually helps efforts. I would imagine to a
large
extent that most give back because they want to, though maybe I am
wrong.

Aaron Bartell
aaronbartell.com

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Jon Paris
<jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I think I now understand why open source has never taken off in the
IBM i community - we can never get past the arguments about what the
(largely unenforceable) license terms mean and actually get down to
coding and sharing.

If it is all as bad as some seem to think then why have SugarCRM, PHP,
MySQL, Linux, and on and on been able to succeed so well?


Jon Paris