Again moving to gnu-sol, please follow-up there. On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:19:06AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In other words: if you like milk, don't kill the cow.... > > > > Unless the cow is sick and produce unusable sour milk or whatever, and there > > is plenty of other sane ones :) > > The more I read from you on this topic, the more I get the impression that > you don't really understand what you are talking about - sorry.
Don't get personal and calm down please. You are clearly taking this discussion on a personal basis, and put all the blame on the other party, and don't even imagine that for some strange reason the author could be making a mistake when searching justice or whatever. The licence is a contract between two parties, and if you want to have a fair such contract, you need to see it as such, and not give one of the parties more power than the other. True the author is the one giving out the software, and can chose not to do so, but the other party can also chose not to use your software, which is not what the OpenSolaris effort is about. Also remember, than in the free/open/whatever software world, the author is not alone, sure he writes the software, but he then benefits from the user base to test and provides feedback, from the distributions and other middle-man to provide integration, distribution, quality-assurance and so on, and from the other free/open/whatever software authors out there who will provide him patches and stuff, not to speak about documentations and translations and so on. So, any licence which arms you with a legal club to go hitting after all those other partners in the free/open/whatever software community is highly dubious and it is understandable that those other partners will want to have nothing to do with it. Telling otherwise is a sign that one doesn't really understand the free/open/whatever software community and what it stands for. Sure, you are the author, you are free to dislike that, and free to not release your software under those conditions, but the community is also free not to accept it, and furthermore, i was under the impression that this was about the OpenSolaris software, which is at least partly owned by Sun, and not an individual project by Joerg Schilling, but then maybe i am wrong in this. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
