I also like the article, it really shows most of the licenses and explains them. I would be happy if it contains more information about the clauses in BSD licenses.
As for myself I prefer writing GPL applications as GPL license keeps the software free so it actually defends me from people that will take my software and make it propriatry. -- Ori Idan On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2009 22:07:17 Steve Litt wrote: > > On Friday 21 August 2009 12:58:13 Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > I have published a new essay about free software licences: > > > > > > > http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences- > > >wa rs/ > > > > > > Any comments will be welcome. > > > > Excellent essay! > > Thanks! > > > I like the way you immediately revealed your predjudice > > (pro- MIT) so as to get that out of the way. > > :-) > > > I disagree with some of your > > conclusions, but obviously your facts are spot on. > > > > Thanks. I would be happy to hear any arguments you have against my > conclusions. Maybe I'll change my opinions. > > > I especially like this: > > > > 3. Write a GPLed server for solving Freecell that the graphical game > would > > communicate with using TCP/IP or a different IPC mechanism. > > > > That's an excellent encapsulation method not only for variables, but for > > licenses too. > > > > Yes. It's not always feasible to do that. For example, you cannot do it > with > the strong-copyleft Berkeley DB or the formerly GPLed Qt, without really > killing performance *and* going through a lot of trouble. But it is often > an > option, as is the case for a Freecell solver. > > BTW, I do actually have some aspirations of creating a web-service for fc- > solve in order to provide hints for > http://cards.wikia.com/wiki/World_of_Solitaire or a similar online > Solitaire > game. So it seems some of the hypothetical anti-GPL measures are actually > otherwise useful technologically. > > Best regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > Recession Relief Package > > http://www.recession-relief.US > > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-il mailing list > > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html > > God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as > we > read. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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