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I don't think that is really accurate. I think it is closer to: - Ford makes car, licenses under Ford license. - 3rd parties make add on products for the Ford
by thefreeman 12y ago
I don't think that is really accurate. I think it is closer to:
- Ford makes car, licenses under Ford license.
- 3rd parties make add on products for the Ford automobile, like an updated radio, and say that it is licensed under the same license as the original car.
- icebraining 12y agoIt's not just a Ford license, it's a Ford Focus license. It's specific to the car, that's why the addon maker shouldn't use it for its radio.
- thefreeman 12y agoTrue, and I am not trying to say the extension authors are correctly using the license. I just thought that the OP's analogy would be more fitting if someone like ruby decided to use the PHP license.
- VLM 12y agoIn retrospect you are probably correct, or at least make a valid point, and it might have made the problem itself even clearer if I hypothetically slapped a license specifically naming the "Ford Focus by Ford" on something non-automotive, like Kelloggs Corn Flakes or a random Xbox video game. However, that would violate the sanctity of the "automobile analogy", so for better or worse I stay within the automobile mfgr community. A sacrifice of technical excellence for style.