> > > Your Hint, Your License - I guess you do not want people to > > modify what you have written ? > > I have problems with licenses and copy rights. That’s why I like open > source so much. It is a requirement of the format of the hint to reference > a license, and although I did not read this one in its entirety, I > understand that anyone can do anything to the hint as long as they > acknowledge me as the original author. I don’t even care about that. It > just seemed like the minimum to satisfy a requirement I do not support. > > After all, if copyrights and licenses would have been the “law of the > land” throughout the history of civilization, we would not have the > printing press, the Bible, the works of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Bach, Mozart > or Beethoven. I don’t rank with those fellows. > > All the copyleft licences (like the one you've chosen) are there to exactly support your sentiments, and to stop the software and documentation being made proprietary and locked down. OS X is a classic example where a permissive licence (BSD licence) has been exploited by Apple, thus creating a proprietary OS X from FreeBSD (in the main).
Richard
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