From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:00:27 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] asterisk works in buildroot? In-Reply-To: <201002110949.08294.minimod@morethan.org> References: <20100211163547.66d65e17@surf> <201002110949.08294.minimod@morethan.org> Message-ID: <20100211170027.501e385e@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:49:04 -0600 "Michael S. Zick" wrote: > Yeah, except then the work would be a "work for hire" and the > property of whoever pays your fee - not an improvement to the open > source Buildroot system. Depends on the conditions of the contract between the consultant and its customer. It could well be that the consultant only accepts to work for the customer if the parts of the work that consist in modifications to existing open source components can be contributed back to the community. This is how we usually work at Free Electrons and customers usually understand this pretty well: because we can leverage the community help during our work, we work faster, which means a smaller cost for the project. > One of the legal and ethical problems faced by any "loss leader" OSS > project used to promote the commercial agenda of private development > firms. Buildroot is hardly the first to try that idea. Definitely, the interaction between commercial companies and open source communities is sometimes complicated due to sometimes diverging interests. But there are companies much more focused on community cooperation than others, IMO. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com