On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:33:52 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 10/23/2011 4:11 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
It never ceases to amaze me that "being business friendly" has become a
phrase for "allows business to steal FOSS work for profit" and conned
the FOSS community into thinking this is a good thing!
And what does GPL do, allow you to "steal FOSS work for non-profit"? I
mean come on! It's not stealing if I give it away, regardless of your
opinion of the recipient! Unlike users of GPL or proprietary licenses, we
do not discriminate against people we want to help :)
The Boost license for Phobos allows such use, and in no way are we
Phobos contributors being conned. We're well aware of it and in fact
that's one big reason why we chose Boost over GPL.
People are free to take the Phobos source and do whatever they please
with it, with our blessing. Hey, if Vanilla Ice "samples" it for his
next rap album, we won't sue. We promise!
Of course, we'd like it if they submitted back fixes and improvements,
but that's up to them. (Vanilla Ice, you can keep your rap version.
Thanks but no thanks!)
Wow, how 1990s of you to bring that up :)
-Steve
