KnowledgeHives Open Source License
Bruce Perens
bruce at perens.com
Tue Sep 2 03:39:02 UTC 2008
Harlan Stenn wrote:
> Didn't work for the bitkeeper folks
They are definitely not a good example, The Bitkeeper license did not
"just ask", the language meant to compel. And there were issues far
beyond the license, which I will refrain from dredging up again.
Others have "just asked" regarding an attribution badge, and have gotten
good results.
Any software that depends on outside people to do its computation must
have a way of checking the result, and it just has to throw away bad
computation. Whether or not you give away source, people are going to
mess with the code.
Bruce
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