[License-review] For Approval: Scripting Free Software License, Version 1.3.6 (S-FSL v1.3.6)

Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de
Tue Nov 19 19:17:08 UTC 2013


Elmar Stellnberger dixit:

> BSD community. Simply leeching out of a project without having to give
> anything back is not fair at all and the reason why so many developers
> have turned away from BSD. The simply feel how unfair it is and have
> thus prefered to work under GPL of what I call the 'communist' license.

Yet this is the #1 argument of the “communist” GPL people. You are no
different than them.

And, I’m happy being a BSD person. It means that I’m not angry about
Google shipping mksh on millions of Android devices, it means I’m
happy about it and proud of my work, of it being good enough for them
to ship my work (instead of something else).

> The BSD core developers could fund their work more easily and the

This is make-believe. In reality, either you can fully sustain yourself,
an eventual family, healthcare, Altersvorsorge, etc. over years from
such income, which is ridiculous to assume, or you’re doing a regular
paid job for income (and do OSS work in your few spare time), which
means that no amount of incoming money could possibly speed it up.
(Freelancers are an exception, but not too frequent to make up for
this.)

> Concerning me and my decision about licensing I do not want to work
> unpaid for industry needs only. If I work for free I would like to
> ensure that the right people can profit from it and that means the

You might want to work for a client who allows you to open-source
the end result, i.e. sell your coding time and support agreements.
My employer has got a good percentage of its clients like that.

> Then as soon as there is a community about it make
> all copyright holders or the extended circle of the
> original authors devolve their right to an association
> which holds the (copy)rights of your software and
> acts in the interest of the community (You could f.i.
> organize that association democratically.).

I’m not interested much in community, and I believe democracy is
evil. I’m doing my OSS work for myself, and to me, it’s only natural
to give back because we’re all standing on the shoulders of giants.
I’m a good enough programmer that no amount of “closed derivates” of
my own work can make a difference to me – if I need something, I’d
just code it myself, possibly better than them. I’m confident in my
work, and I do not need to worry about derivates being taken into
proprietary-dom (is that a word), since the original is always free
and always mine.

But Luis is right, please let’s not continue this on the list.
I set fup2p.

bye,
//mirabilos
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