<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Kyle Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kyle@kemitchell.com" target="_blank">kyle@kemitchell.com</a>></span> wrote:<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The intent is _not_ to turn well meaning folks<br>
into unwitting infringers. Rather, it's to<br>
motivate contributions to what's available under<br>
Open Source terms. Contributions may come either<br>
in kind, as released code, or in coin for<br>
alternative license terms, to support those<br>
releasing code.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And that's the killer argument. Encouraging contributions</div><div>is one thing: coercing them is another. And I at least</div><div>frequently deal with open-source code from the 1990s or</div><div>earlier, and I don't want to have to distribute the little hacks</div><div>I need to make to run that code on current OSes.</div><div><br></div><div>No cigar.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><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></div><div>No, John. I want formats that are actually useful, rather than over-</div><div>featured megaliths that address all questions by piling on ridiculous</div><div>internal links in forms which are hideously over-complex.</div><div> --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>