Quoting Tzeng, Nigel H. (nigel.tz...@jhuapl.edu): > On 6/11/12 3:54 PM, "Chad Perrin" <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > > >Rather, I think the complaint is about people making hypocritical > >statements about exactly the kind of behavior they exhibit with regard to > >source code appropriation....
Oddly enough, in the two _actual_ cases of code appropriation anyone eventually coughed up (ath5k and g4l), I was among the few people who actively told the malefactors in no uncertain terms, in public, that they had greatly erred and needed to cease their copyright violation. The public Freshmeat.net comments in the g4l case were particularly striking, and I wish I could still point to them, but VA Research^W^W VA Linux Systems^W^W^W SourceForge, Inc.^W^W GeekNet, Inc. seem to have flushed all comments away in a site redesign. > >, and about people pretending there is no difference between two > >different edge cases of license effects when, in fact, there is a > >difference. The language about a 'fixed pool of open source developers' is revealing: One notes the assumption of entitlement to mindshare. Perhaps the easiest solution would be to regard copyleft as a subcategory of proprietary development. Then it'd suddenly become OK again. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
