[Fiware-technical-committee] FIWARE Dev Requirements : Update

[Juanjo Hierro]

Hi,a

   This clause was intended to cover the concern of certain partners who 
are arguing that, when Affero GNU GPL is adopted as open source license, 
then the owner of the software has the right to have its own private 
version of the product and implement in that "internal" private copy 
enhancements they develop but they are not forced to make public 
(because are changes on the private version).

   While I'm not sure the concern is valid, the clause somehow push the 
FIWARE GE owner to commit publicly that they don't plan to do such a 
thing and they will make publicly available any changes on the software 
they develop.

   You may argue that it cannot be checked, but the owner has to be 
careful because if they are found they hadn't respect the clause then 
anyone could sue them.

   That's the rationale.

   Cheers,

   Juanjo


On 14/09/2018 14:08, José Manuel Cantera wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I’ve transcripted mostly all Juanjo’s comments to a PR to the Dev 
> Guidelines.
>
> There is one controversial addition made by Juanjo that was not added, 
> yet:
>
>  *
>
>     The organization(s) owning IPRs on the whole software is (are)
>     making publicly available on the GitHub repo(s) associated to the
>     product all changes developed on the product, i.e., it (they)
>     don’t retain any changes in a private version of the product.
>
>
> IMHO, that is somewhat unrealistic, it is difficult / impossible to be 
> checked and may hamper people from contributing software that may have 
> a part which is not open source.
>
> I think such issue can be discussed during next TSC
>
> Thanks,
>
> Best
>

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