[License-discuss] Thoughts on the subject of ethical licenses

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Thu Mar 12 23:19:36 UTC 2020


On 3/12/20 8:12 AM, Gil Yehuda via License-discuss wrote:
> 1. I created this code.
> 2. I seek to display it for others to see. Perhaps comment, improve, or
> at least recognize me for it.
> 3. I seek to allow many people to use this code too.
> 4. For a particular set of reasons, I don't want some people or entities
> to use my code.
> 5. I want people who can use my code to be unable to circumvent my
> restriction in #4.
> 6. I might have other statements I want to make that are preserved in
> the project.
> 
> A lot of the conversation focused on the first part of #4 (or the
> details of #6).

oooh, nice summary.  A very succinct way of putting the issue.

If you don't blog this, I'm gonna borrow it.

-- 
Josh Berkus



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