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As much as he makes good and bad points I think some of the commentary here is unfair; I think Zed is just explaining why he wants to use GPL license from now o
by ErrantX 17y ago
As much as he makes good and bad points I think some of the commentary here is unfair; I think Zed is just explaining why he wants to use GPL license from now on.
As someone who has been "burned" on some minor pieces of code I agree with him somewhat. If, for example, I laid down some pretty useful code and open sourced it - then a startup came along, used it to bootleg their code and made millions I'd be pretty upset. That's not what it was open sourced for (because no one benefits from their millions).
Perhaps no money required but it is nice for companies in those situations to say "yeh and we built it on the awesome XXXXX (link to site)". Because that means more people can find something that is useful to them.
- zmimon 17y agoI'm sorry, if you released the software under a liberal open source license then you weren't "burned". I don't get what it is that makes people release software under licenses that say "do whatever you want with my code" and then suddenly get all self-righteous when someone actually does that. Be pleased and flattered your software is being used - if that wasn't your original motivation then you chose the wrong license to begin with.
- ErrantX 17y agoHence the quote marks. I didnt hugely mind the use of my code. It just sucked that after beign asked they refused to push fixes and improvements back into the public branch. That's takign advantage of the permissive license IMO :) >Be pleased and flattered your software is being used No one is suggesting this isnt the case :) it's possible to be flattered by some and frustrated by others (indeed if they refuse to add code to the "pot" I dont consider their use very flattering....)
- e4m 17y ago"If, for example, I laid down some pretty useful code and open sourced it - then a startup came along, used it to bootleg their code and made millions I'd be pretty upset." I wonder if Linus is upset with RedHat?
- ErrantX 17y agored hat contributes to kernel development ;)
- codemonkey 17y agoRedHat also gave him some fat stock options, just to say thanks.
- loumf 17y agoRed Hat gave away a lot of shares to Linux/Unix contributors. Here's an article from Eric Raymond about shares he got from VA Linux, but it mentions Red Hat doing this as well http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-12-10-001-05-NW-LF http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-12-10-00...
- gaius 17y agoThat is actually an article about what a tossbag ESR is.
- Tichy 17y agoWhat was it open sourced for then?