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>I think its both insulting and an incredibly narrow-view to call permissively licensed software "pseudo freemium". I don't mean the general case of permissive
by rogerbraun 11y ago
>I think its both insulting and an incredibly narrow-view to call permissively licensed software "pseudo freemium".
I don't mean the general case of permissively licensed software, but the way that the article expects Apple to act.
- stephenr 11y agoEither you/the author are claiming Apple will break the licence terms they themselves have chosen to release the software under, or you're insulting permissively licensed software. Which is it?
- rogerbraun 11y agoI'm not trying to insult anyone. The BSD and similar licenses are of course free software licenses, and the FSF does (again, of course) acknowlegde that. Still, a company like Apple can use these licenses to take outside contributions in their proprietary software. Freemium might not be the right word for that, but I think it's not unreasonable to dislike these (completely legal) practice.