[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.

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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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