2008/9/17 JDLaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > IMHO to all, > > There is an important morality discussion about how sentient life will > be treated that has not received its proper treatment in your > discussion groups. I have seen glimpses of this topic, but no real > action proposals. How would you feel if you created this wonderful > child (computer intelligence) in this standard GNU model and then > people began to exploit and torture your own child? > > The uploaded file, Propiretary_Open_Source.jpg, shows you that you can > have open source with ownership. By definition all open source begins > as work of authorship, to which its author has ownership. The owner > simply chooses under what circumstances the work of authorship can be > used. > > I propose that each of you begins thinking about this work as your own > child. Only then will you begin to understand the ramifications of > the "legal" steps you take in opencog. > > James Driessen, JD/MBA BSME
I agree with Bob Mottram, this would be much better discussed on the AGI mailing list. Note, however, there is a common distinction between "data" and "software". Thus, for example, many commercial web sites use the open-source Apache web server, and serve-up highly proprietary web page content. Similarly, one could have OpenCog being GPL'ed, but the data -- things it has learned by training, experience, etc. could be proprietary. Think of software as "the machine", and the data as "the mind", "the memories", "the personality". I similar view is maintained in the medical world: think of software as "body" and data as "mind" -- All humans have more or less the same body, it is our "data", our memories and experiences that make us different. I can even replace my hip with a titanium one, (replace my "machine") without altering who I am (at least not much). I would be a great world if titanium hips, and the cost of replacing them, were free, while the civil liberties of our thoughts and minds were stoutly protected with the greatest of proprietary rights! --linas > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenCog General Discussion List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/opencog?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
