[Vtigercrm-developers] vtiger license(s) (was: Comitter access forms?)

[Mike Fedyk]

Matthew Brichacek wrote:

>I don't have any problems with point "a" but I won't assign my
>copyrights to vtiger unless there is a foundation of some kind that
>controls this and a democratic voting process that allows community
>members to sit on the board.  We've all seen it before, commercial
>entities get greedy (or their VC's) and if they have full copyrights
>over the project you can expect it to get dual licensed and then all
>kinds of bad things will follow.  If you want examples, look no further
>than mambo, asterisk or sugar.
>
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I completely agree.  But I want to take it a bit further.

I would be willing to allow joint copyright assignment (similar to what 
Sun does with OpenOffice.org) but any file I add will be under the 
LGPL.  I see no reason to add *any* files under the SPL, VPL or MPL 
license to vtiger.

This thread about the SPL and MPL licenses applies to VPL also:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/11/msg00112.html

Why do we need *another* open source license?