You can be proud of you. I'm proud of you and I can tell you that I
really understand you. I can tell you that once I was tempted to change
the license of my new books because bad people could just take
everything. (yes this is silly when you read but I thought about it and
we even discussed it in the book mailing-list). And I changed my mind
and continue to use the most liberal CC license.
And I have sometimes the same doubts with Pharo code. Nothing prevents
people to copy what we took ages to build. Now let us live along with that.
Now what is important for our community is how we get money inside and
that people can make a living. You can add yourself to the Pharo
consultant list (sadly I do not think that it will get an impact but we
should do it).
Now what would be nice to know is what are the time you can do on other
paid projects and what are the domains of expertise you have so that if
we know companies they can be put in contact with you.
Stef
Le 8/9/16 à 06:00, Hernán Morales Durand a écrit :
I consider GNU AGPL v3 a fair license choice which protects somehow
authors. After some talks with friends today, I began to consider it
useless for a niche community like Smalltalk *and* solo projects. I
then read all your mails, many posts in other communities, and finally
asked for advices. Conclusion: The ideal license option for me was not
yet invented.
Now about parasite behavior and easy living for freeloaders.
- I doubt Smalltalkers are in position for doing anything valuable
against parasites. GPL scares a niche community. All of us having MIT
code published can be stealed and we have no legal options to defend
our work/authorship. That should be addressed one day.
- However, I would like one day to read people releasing software
under whatever license they want and not to be pointed them. That's a
matter of freedom. I feel we are far away from there.
- I hope we can talk about interesting Territorial features, what do
you need, what could be modeled better, etc. Licensing is boring, really.
I re-licensed Territorial to MIT for the nice Pharo people, for the
nice Smalltalkers, people who helped me here in mailing lists, or
sending supportive private messages, and for cool users with nice
intentions.
Hernán
PS: Updated User Manual: http://bit.ly/2c4RrCJ
