Matthew Garrett ([personal profile] mjg59) wrote,
@ 2011-05-17 01:14 pm UTC
Entry tags:advogato, fedora
The fundamental problem with projects requiring copyright assignment is that there's an economic cost involved in me letting a competitor sell a closed version of my code without letting me sell a closed version of their code. If this cost is perceived as larger than the cost of maintaining my code outside the upstream tree, it's cheaper for me to fork than it is to sign over my rights. So if I have my own engineering resources, what rational benefit is there to me assigning my copyright?

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[personal profile] mjg59
2011-05-18 02:41 pm UTC (link)
It's very easy to maintain a fork up until the point where you have conflicting functionality, at which point it becomes a nightmare.

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