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TL;DR: a twenty minute discussion of the permissive vs copyleft dichotomy and why it puts a division between activist- and business-developers. Food for thought
by manicdee 8y ago
TL;DR: a twenty minute discussion of the permissive vs copyleft dichotomy and why it puts a division between activist- and business-developers. Food for thought rather than answers or questions.
From the article:
Ask people affiliated with the Open Source Initiative about free software, and many will tell you that it isn’t really any different from open source. Free software just preached too much fire and brimstone, missed the rebrand, and lost mindshare.
Ask folks affiliated with the Free Software Foundation about open source, and many will jump to tell just how different it is. Open source strips free software of its values, pandering to the nonfree industry with promises of better, cheaper code, which doesn’t happen without unifying community spirit.
- kemitchell 8y agoDid you get past the part about existing divisions, to the discussion of how hybrid terms like SSPL appeal exclusively to business use cases, without activist support?
- TeMPOraL 8y agoTL;DR as I see it: there's permissive vs copyleft dichotomy in licenses. Both camps are made out of activists and commercial players - copyleft camp has FSF and upstarts, permissive camp has BSD hackers and corporations. The situation is changing, as the commercial players from both camps joined together trying to forge their own "open source" license type, leaving activists from both camps aside.
- vetrom 8y agoOP is an IP lawyer right? Food for thought is free, answers cost.