martingxx

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by martingxx 10y ago
I led our teams to switch from Java to Go because of the productivity of development, but then noticed deployment was simpler and faster, memory usage was slashed (for comparable applications), request/response times were much more con
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by martingxx 10y ago
"My point is that with GPL, the implementation of the fixes/new features is right in front of you, you see it, yet you can't merge it into your GPL-incompatible codebase." 1) You almost certainly can as long as it's
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by martingxx 10y ago
Re-implementing "independently" once you have seen the source code can be legally problematic. (see https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/faq/faq.html#faq3_2 ) for an example. No longer needing the
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by martingxx 10y ago
I interpret this as "I don't want to collaborate with you people yet - I want this all for myself because I think I can make more money that way. But in case I fail, I'll change my mind and hey let's work together!"
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by martingxx 10y ago
You can't port fixes and new features unless you have a license to do so. That's true in all cases. If you only license you have is GPL, it doesn't allow you to use those in a non-Free way, which I think is the point you are
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by martingxx 10y ago
If this is newly written code not based on Skype code then there is clearly no copyright issue. Trademark is a potential problem but easily solved by removing the Skype name from the project.
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by martingxx 10y ago
Please support sfconservancy.org if you can afford to. They do great work. (fwiw, I have no connection to sfconservancy - I just think they are great)