On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 12:17:28 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 11:42:22 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 11:34:42 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On ideology offtopic - in my opinion BSD is akin to anarchism
and GPL is like communism, in modern internet flavor :)
Not so sure about the anarchism bit. In an anarchy nobody can
assume power (i.e. make it proprietary).
This statement is only true if you consider information a
meta-property and thus very concept of copyright legitimate.
Legitimacy of copyright is a tough one. Software development and
the internet have added a new angle to it. However, where do you
draw the line? The fact that something can be easily copied /
distributed (internet) does not mean that the concept of
copyright is obsolete (cf. the Pirate Party). Why should a
composer, band or author not have the copyright on his/her own
work and not see any money for it?
In software it's a bit different. Where does "innovation" or "own
work" start? Companies have sued each other for trivial things
that anybody would come up with intuitively. However, I don't
think that you can easily compare the world of software
development with other areas.
I personally don't and thus BSD ideology suits me better :P In
such terminology base your statement makes no sense as
restricting a copy has nothing to do with original.
Pretty much any GPL vs BSD holywar out there makes circles
arounds these very basics. I like BSD ideologically but GPL is
simply better for practical reasons if you want your project to
evolve as community-based. And, of course, there are always
exceptions :P
