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There's more value in forcing vendors to work with Free Software licenses than in compromising the ideals of open source to allow vendors to benefit without con
by gnu8 13y ago
There's more value in forcing vendors to work with Free Software licenses than in compromising the ideals of open source to allow vendors to benefit without contributing back.
You should be asking yourself how you can change your project so that GPL3 licensed code will be acceptable, rather than asking others to relicense their code.
- GHFigs 13y agoI humbly contend that forcing people to do anything in the name of an preserving the purity of an ideology is a Bad Idea.
- delinka 13y agoNot to mention, you can't really force them to do anything: they'll just avoid the GPL code, create it themselves, or find something similar under another license.
- edoloughlin 13y agoAuthors are giving their work away, subject to restrictions of their choosing. There's no coercion involved.
- GHFigs 13y agoI'm responding to the idea that ideological purity is the goal, not the author's right.
- wnight 13y agoIsn't it amazing how people come out of the woodwork to point out the force inherent in the GPL never say "oh, by the way, thanks for publishing a reference spec I'm free to use to develop my own code." As Thomas said, people would be less bitchy, and less holier-than-thou (cough), had Moxie not written any code, or written it and charged an arm and a leg for it. It's sort of what patio11 talks about. The cheaper the service, the worse the people treat you.
- GHFigs 13y agoI didn't say anything about Moxie.