Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?
Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?
- Subject: Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?
- From: Andrew Lindesay <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:24:31 +1200
Hi John;
Here's the other thing from a developer standpoint...if they ever
were to open source it, it would surely be APSL and not GPL so you
could never borrow any of the code for anything anyway. Most Linux
distributions won't touch the APSL (see launchd and bonjour). So
really what would be the point? Just so you could recompile it?
You can already override/replace almost any part of the framework.
Or is there something in the current in the current license that's
bugging you?
On the path to WO 5.4.3 over 2007/2008, and simply when I'm trying to
understand specific behaviours, not having the source-code was/is
quite annoying -- I would have thought that it would be beneficial for
Apple to have all of us being able to submit suggested solutions into
Radar rather than just problems. Real engineering problems however
are, in my opinion, dwarfed by the political issues around having no
source-access and releases managed as "surprises" to the user base.
cheers.
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Andrew Lindesay
www.lindesay.co.nz
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