[License-review] For Approval: Scripting Free Software License, Version 1.3.6 (S-FSL v1.3.6)
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Wed Nov 20 15:39:18 UTC 2013
Thorsten Glaser scripsit:
> 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.
BSD people are generous givers; GPL people are generous sharers.
They have no reason to oppose one another, since the distinction is a
personal choice. Both have reason to oppose people who want to play
in the open-source playground without abiding by the open-source rules.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan <cowan at ccil.org>
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! `Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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