GPL MorphOS?

[olegil]

I really don't see why releasing the code is so much more of a holy grail than having a free binary download. An OS is NOT something you change and recompile on a daily basis. I suspect it's already quite easy to get access to the codebase for someone who wants to port it to other systems or help out improving it.

Please stop acting like RMS is god and all applications should be © FSF, ok?
I actually prefer a real open source license, like the BSD license. With the deletion of the advertising clause this license is pretty much perfect. Personal interpretation: "Use it, modify it do whatever the hell you want. But I made the original version, and I want credit for that."

Flames go, as usual, to NIL:

[olegil]

Amiga died due to being closed. You can't argue with that.

Facts, please. Amiga is closed source, but VERY open documentation. Just look at aminet to see how much software has been created by people in their spare time. If AmigaOS had gone GPL back then we would now have 25 different AmigaOS-versions, all incompatible and all dead. As it is, we've got only the 3, which might still work.

This is my personal theory based on how much cooperation I see on a daily basis in this "community", other people might have other opinions. Some people are terminally panicked by the thought of adding things they won't personally use ("oh no, not another bloated option like windoze" being heard every day on the AmigaOS4 yahoogroups list), so I don't really see how opening the source to AmigaOS would have helped in this case.