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I know it's not a good idea to bring up the license debate, but the fact that we seem to should be grateful for this is what scares me about the use of non-copy
by ris 13y ago
I know it's not a good idea to bring up the license debate, but the fact that we seem to should be grateful for this is what scares me about the use of non-copyleft licenses.
- protomyth 13y agoThe thought you a brining up a license debate instead of being grateful to Valve and their developers for their hard work is what scares me about copyleft licenses.
- pjc50 13y agoOne should be proportionally more grateful to the original Mesa developers, surely?
- protomyth 13y agoI guess if we are counting karma as points or lines of code, but not showing some gratitude from those you meet along the way or demanding things others is just impolite. The original Mesa developers gave their code freely and so did Valve. Bringing up copyleft every time someone contributes like forcing developers is a better way is a pain. It is much like all the "Why would I use X when I have Y" comments that float to the top. A second point on the "more grateful" as the GPL values 1 line over 1,000s of lines of MIT, so I don't see how that can be an argument.
- ris 13y agoI'm far more grateful to the tens or hundreds of people who wrote the bulk of the mesa project, largely unpaid for it.
- protomyth 13y agoI'm hopeful you're grateful to each individually and not bringing up their collective choice of a non-copyleft license each time one contributed.