metamattl

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   by metamattl 14y ago

   I think we're still going to use Kickstarter, but maybe we'll do ours in two places.
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   by metamattl 14y ago

   matt from the fsf here -- i spoke to the person with him at the hospital, he's fine. they're doing some routine tests now.
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   by metamattl 14y ago

   You're against the GPL, but you're okay with people writing their own new licenses?
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   by metamattl 14y ago

   Not really. There's less than 100 licenses out there, and most projects use a subset of around 10 of them.
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   by metamattl 14y ago

   Generally speaking, GitHub public repos are only for free software projects. A lot of people just forget to put up a license. I file a polite bug with the project, and they generally fix it within a day or so.
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   by metamattl 14y ago

   > "Restrictive": anything that is GPL or requires you to pay for or share all sources Paying for sources, sounds an awful lot like proprietary software. Pay for binaries, sure... sources shouldn't be withheld and should be available for
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   by metamattl 14y ago

   The FSF has a pretty decent list of licenses -- http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicens...
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   by metamattl 14y ago

   Even if "restrictive" is misleading? Copyleft licenses really don't seem to be a problem unless you're trying to make something proprietary? Unless I'm missing some other restriction...