[REBOL] Re: Rebol SDK vs Command
From: santilli:gabriele:g:mail at: 17-Sep-2007 12:08
2007/9/17, Carl Read <carl-cybercraft.co.nz>:
> Assuming there's not many, why is he worried?
If you don't get any contributions, then making it OS is a waste of
time for Carl, and a problem from the point of view of investors and
other partners etc. (Well, that's debatable in principle, but it is a
fact at this point.) So in the end, there is not much advantage for
the community (maybe for small bug fixes, but that would not really
scale up, and Carl would still need to check or do all the fixes), and
there are only disadvantages for RT.
In particular, to protect RT, one would not be able to use something
like BSD; the only OS license that i think would protect RT adequately
would be the GPL, but half of the world (including Carl) hate it, so
it's a no go. In the end, there is really no choice.
Regards,
Gabriele.
