Bazaar Licenses

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Usher, Sean (Sean) wrote:
> Sorry about not Ccing the list, I'm used to Gmail handling stuff like
> this for me (I hate Outlook).
> 
> We plan on using it to version our code, we might make changes to
> Bazzar, nad we would not distribute it to the public in any way.
> 
> So it sounds like we should be fine in using it then wiothout worries.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sean
> 

So just realize that under almost every other "standard" license, you
wouldn't have access to the code in order to modify Bazaar to do what
you want/need. (For example, I can't tweak Microsoft Office because I
don't like some default action it provides.)

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.

John
=:->



[1] 5 people working 40hrs/week for 3 years is 31,200 hours. I think
that is an upper bound, but probably 10k hours is a lower bound of the
amount of effort that has gone into bzr.
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