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Viral licensing is a standard, established, and widely used term, which also has the property of using real words rather than invented neologisms which have imp
by 4ad 11y ago
Viral licensing is a standard, established, and widely used term, which also has the property of using real words rather than invented neologisms which have imprecise and incorrect definitions (from POV of real-world usage in OSS) in dictionaries: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/buzzword/entries/copyleft.html http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/buzzword/entries/copyl...
Inventing new words for concepts properly described by old words is what's annoying, and it's really imprecise when people outside the specialized field start to have different opinions about what the neologisms mean than the people inside the field who actually use them.
- icebraining 11y agoYou wrote that Apple would only be forced to distribute code under viral licenses, but licenses like MPL are hardly "viral" (they don't require you to distributed linked code) yet they still require people to distribute the original source. "Viral licenses" lose the nuance of weak copyleft. That's besides the inherit prejudice in the choice of the word "viral".
- the_why_of_y 11y agoThe wikipedia article cites as the source for the term various Microsoft executives; so you propose we should use the Microsoft propaganda terms to refer to open source licenses? Ah I see, you're just trolling.