Quant 0 Report post Posted October 6, 2004 Hi AH, What do you think about making NDN to open source ? Is there any way to make it open source ? Regards... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AngelsHolocaust 0 Report post Posted October 8, 2004 Hi! Although i like the idea of open source software we wont make NDN open source. i don't see the way NDN would take if anyone could dl the source and do with it what he/she wants. i also don't think NDN would have any advantages or better/faster development regards Stefan/AH Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
asz 0 Report post Posted August 17, 2008 - historically interesting - can gaze in wonder - can study it - can port it to linux or windows (theoretically) - can consider to contribute - contributing to non Open Source projects is mostly wasted (even documentation or user to user help) - if you like Open Source it's nice to show some support by releasing own software also as Open Source - anyone who wants to redistribute it (for example the FreeDOS project could like to) can grab the binary / source and put it into their own releases without fighting with licence issues (important imho) - no disadvantage? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AngelsHolocaust 0 Report post Posted August 26, 2008 Hi asz! It took me a while to find time to answer your post... I agree on all your arguments except for the last 5. Why is contribution to non open source projects (NOSP) (mostly) wasted (time?) ? Is a bug report for an OSP better than for a NOSP? I like the "idea" behind OS. More on this point in the last argument... NDNs licence allows binary redistribution on free media. Only on media to be sold I want to be asked at least. The source code itself is a total different issue. But, the source code goes to everyone who asks for it, after telling me his interests and goals. -------- Last argument, and most important: disadvantages First of all, my views on OS are not as strict anymore, I discussed this with Necromancer quite some time ago and he would provide me with a CVS/SVN server. But I do have some concerns (disadvantages) that I want to express here: - time to set up the whole OS project My time is quite limited. I rather spend it all on NDN itself. I don't know how long it will take me to complete an OS-NDN setup. - time to maintain incoming contributions Again, time! Right now I get source code by a very few people, which I test and verify before it is actually included into the source code. I fear that I will get a lot of patches (probably directly patched on the server) and that I have to maintain the patches over the server, with a lot more overhead that I do right now. Maybe I will get more patches, maybe a lot of "waste". My own time to work on NDN will decrease... - NDN branches How can I keep people back from creating loads of new branches of NDN instead of contributing to the main branch? And again, adding more and more patches, with testing and so on. - NDN stability NDN is quite stable by now. My biggest concern is losing the overview and ruining my past years of work. Probably I am a bit overconcerned. I am not saying NDN will never go OS anymore. But at the moment, at least I, cannot put any effort into this. Stefan / AH Share this post Link to post Share on other sites