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byimpaledsunset ( 1337701 ) writes:
That's why I use real free and open source licenses, non abominations like the GPL. Making your software "free" and then fighting people using it with legal pressure, eh?
I put everything in the public domain, and I sleep well at night without having nightmares that someone might have violated my license.
byUngrounded Lightning ( 62228 ) writes:
I put everything in the public domain, and I sleep well at night without having nightmares that someone might have violated my license.
Then here's a nightmare for you:
- A serious bug is discovered in your wonderful PD product. (Maybe some subtle security hole that the malware gangs find and exploit.)
- Somebody makes a fix AND COPYRIGHTS THE FIXED VERSION.
- You can't import the fix to YOUR version without violating the copyright.
- None of your users can fix the bug either. T
byAnonymous Coward writes:
Bullshit.
First: He naturally has copyright on his fix. Not on your code. And that is true regardless of the license. He has the same copyright if the product is GPL licensed.
Second: Why can none of my users fix the bug? What makes the other person so special?
Third: I still have the code. Why can't I expand and improve that?
And here is a nightmare for you:
- A serious bug is discovered in your service application which is distributed under GPL.
- Somebody makes a fix AND COPYRIGHTS THAT FIX.
- You can't import
byaccount_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:
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bypetrus4 ( 213815 ) writes:
Checkout why Wine moved from BSD to GPL.
According to Wikipedia, it looks as though the Wine developers had an attack of reciprocity paranoia. This invalidates the BSD license...how, exactly?
There is some bullshit here which needs debunking. Proprietary forks of a non-copyleft project do not inherently "lock out a project's original authors from the subsequent development of a project," at all. Under a non-copyleft license, said original developers never lose their own code, at all. Someone else can fork it, which is fine; and it's still fine
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bypetrus4 ( 213815 ) writes:
Nope. Try a more reliable source like the Wine mailing lists.
I'm not sure why I'm bothering to do this, because I know you're going to continue to think the same thing regardless, but...
I'm looking at http://www.winehq.org/history [winehq.org] which I assume you're hopefully going to agree, is likely a reliable source. ;) I've tried searching for mailing list entries, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of stuff out there, at least that Google is showing up.
Anyway, there seem to be a couple of points.
a) RMS helpfully pointed out that, at the time anyway, the BSD license was cons
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