Bazaar Licenses

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:40 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:


> Anyway, I *think* you won't run into specific legal issues. (I am not a
> lawyer.) That said, if you are modifying an open source program, it is
> often *morally* proper to make those changes public.
> 
> It depends what the changes are, but given that some people have spent a
> lot of time[1] and given away the result for free, it is often nice to
> contribute back the little bit of work you did to make it better for
> yourself.

Well, we use the GPL to ensure that bzr is able to be fixed by users to
meet their needs. I don't see that placing any moral obligation on users
that do change it to get their changes back to us. Its *great* when they
do, but often the changes may be specific to their environment or
something we don't want to do. I think it would be sad if we made users
in those situations feel guilty about exercising the freedoms the GPL
explicitly grants them :).

-Rob
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