<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 8:35 AM Johnny A. Solbu <<a href="mailto:johnny@solbu.net">johnny@solbu.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tuesday 25 February 2020 16:43, Eric S. Raymond wrote:</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I am one of those who fully agree with Eric Raymond on this.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Social justice clauses /Does Not/ belong in licenses, in any form.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree, for reasons stated.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Adding such clauses makes any software using such a license, proprietary software.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not unless they limit the rights of licensors. If you are an aggressive software patenter, you can still use and modify GPLed software, even though you have to endure being condemned by the FSF as a threat to all software everywhere. (The absence of software patents is clearly one of the "conditions we require to accomplish open-source cooperation".)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>Cash registers don't really add and subtract;<br> they only grind their gears.<br>But then they don't really grind their gears, either;<br> they only obey the laws of physics. --Unknown<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>