On 01/27/2011 06:44 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Generally, the GPL does not mandate giving anyone credit, in some particular >> form or fashion. > I wasn´t thinking of the legal angle. I was thinking about public > discourse of portraying Oracle as some sort of enemies of open source, > and "independent" (while backed by other corporations) as pure and > honest Not a single person involved with fork have said anything about Oracle being the enemy or evil. If you are going to criticize the arguments use the actual reasons given by the contributors involved in the fork which are quite different. Here is one reference http://lwn.net/Articles/407339/ Being backed from corporations doesn't prevent a project from being independent. It depends on the governance model and licensing structure. There are many successful ones ranging from the non-profit ones such as Apache, Mozilla (which has a corporation as well ) and Document Foundation. There are also different trade associations such as Eclipse and the Linux Foundation. They are all different from each other and give the projects a good level of independence allowing multiple organizations to work together on a codebase while competing in other ways. Rahul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
