Michael wrote:
>
>> Often, I saw some people react with hostility to any attempt to even
>> bring up the issue, and basically deliver a wide-ranging ultimatum
>> that no code was ever going to be accepted into E's cvs unless it
>> was under a BSD/MIT license -- consider Michael Jenning's recent
>> remark: "Contributions which become part of E or the EFL must be BSD
>> licensed"
>>
>
> Most any other license would attempt to infect the rest of the
> project.
>
>
That certainly seems to be your 'view' of things, and from your
perspective
it's no doubt quite true.
>> I'm not sure what kind of 'authority' he feels he has to make such a
>> statement, but it certainly doesn't reflect anything I feel
>> comfortable with, and will limit my contributions to this project,
>> for purely personal reasons -- even though I like many other aspects
>> of it, this one just doesn't work for me... never has and never
>> will.
>>
>
> The only "advantage" that the GPL has over the BSD license is that it
> forces all derivatives to be GPL'd, meaning that nobody can create a
> closed-source project based on it. The only reason I can think of to
> not want that to happen is that you don't want anyone else making
> money off it (because really, if they're not making money, and you're
> already getting credit, what else is there?). If someone else manages
> to make money off your work that you contributed freely, that doesn't
> actually *hurt* you. Perhaps makes you feel taken advantage of, or
> envious, but it doesn't actually damage you.
>
> I've struggled with this before myself. I know how it feels to have
> someone else making money off your work and not at least having the
> decency to share the wealth. But I certainly don't see that as a
> valid justification for hoarding your code or withholding your
> contributions from the rest of the community. (Who is the worse
> person -- the one who is selfish with money, or the one who is selfish
> with code?)
>
>
You're an intelligent, thoughtful person Michael, but I'm no dummy nor was
I born yesterday. Rest assured, as much thought as you've given things over
this,
it's likely that I have as well.
I could care less about people 'making money' from any code that I might
contribute, BSD or LGPL or whatnot. It just doesn't matter to me one bit. I'm
more concerned with the impact that I think BSD/MIT style licenses have, both
on the large scale of things, and for this project as well, and I don't want to
'contribute' to that system in any serious way.
We can argue/discuss/debate this all day, but in the end you'll have to
agree that I'm not going to change your mind (nor do I want to try), and
conversely.
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