Hi all!
The discussion is now completely off-topic... Could moderators create a thread dedicated to open-sourcing (or not) AmigaOS and move there most of the posts in this thread, starting with the post
#17?
On the topic of open-source, this
article from Ars Technica summarises very well the different open-source licenses. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to contribute to this thread!
Regarding the need to keep AmigaOS closed source, two thoughts:
- The difficulty to fork, compile, change the code would probably prevent "silly" forks;
- Even if some developers managed to fork the code:
- Their changes are beneficial and users will use them.
- Their changes are silly and nobody will care.
With an open-source license (
copyleft), beneficial changes would/could be integrated back into the "main" repo., thus benefitting everyone, without creating
too much "noise".
Are there any other reasons for which the code should not be open-souce? (Not talking about legalese here, I'm talking about serious
management, community, and-or technical issues.)
Cheers!
