Just chiming in here ... I personally try to put as much into AGPL as possible:
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl.html
It puts additional weight on shoulders... however I think it is the
most responsible license available.
In reference to the fsf v. cisco, I think that the reparations the fsf
has proposed to cisco are a bit hard to cope with. This hopefully is
a wake up call to some other companies out there.
RMS has always been way out in left field... But man is he cool :)
Like most extremists it is very hard to align yourself on his side of
the fence. Unlike most extremists (I have known) he is a very logical
fellow, when all is said and done.
As a side note:
Anyone here dislike the majority of the changes from v2 to v3 of the GPL?
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org> wrote:
> "Jeremy Sliwinski (mailing list account)" <listbox@unix-boy.com> writes:
>
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> And that is the problem. It assumes that the right of people to
>>>> access code is greater than the author's right to their work.
>>>
>>> Many people don't see that as a problem.
>>
>> That's because most GPL users aren't writing or developing software,
>> so they simply ignore that issue because they benefit from it.
>
> I'm a GPL user and a GPL programmer. In this case, I would say "Let the
> market decide". If that many programmers felt the way you do, they
> wouldn't create or modify GPL software and Linux, Gnome, Java, MySQL,
> Emacs, GCC, etc would either cease to exist or would never have been
> licensed under the GPL in the first place.
>
> In fact, many programmers, myself included, and corporations see the
> advantage of the GPL over the BSD for creating and releasing software.
> We *want* the viral effects of the GPL. Its why we use it. If you
> don't like them, you are not obligated to modify our software. And if
> you don't like the viral effects, I'm sure you won't want to build on it
> — but you can still use it and enjoy more legal freedom than you could
> with any proprietary software.
>
> In the end, why worry about the GPL? As a programmer, no one is forcing
> you to modify GPLed software. Even if your job requires you to modify
> GPLed software, you enjoy more rights than if you had just done a
> straight work-for-hire programming job.
>
> How does the GPL harm programmers who don't want its viral effects to
> affect their software?
>
> Mark.
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