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Despite all the points the author tries to make, he forgets to mention the most important one: license proliferation is not a positive thing for people who care
by purpleidea 7y ago
Despite all the points the author tries to make, he forgets to mention the most important one: license proliferation is not a positive thing for people who care about software freedom. He's responsible for proliferating, and I hope it stops. Lack of innovation in licensing isn't the problem. Corporate greed is.
- kemitchell 7y agoThe licenses I’ve contributed to don’t rehash old licenses. They represent new choices. Some patch holes in old forms. Some break new ground. If “license proliferation” means something even stricter, like “no new licenses, even if they do new things”, there’s no good argument for it as a policy, other than protecting those currently “winning” who fear change. Database proliferation is not killing software. Nor is framework proliferation or markup language proliferation or programming language proliferation.
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