Well, I can agree with that too..
but something you will always have to give them, something like
support/update of the software, allow them to do something they wouldn't
like to do without the license etc...
It is a VERY HARD thing writing a RIGHT license...
we (maybe except you, Rasmus) are just more likely not good enough to write
a good license, the one which will totally satisfy a customer and will
encourage him to purchase it.
my point is: licenses aren't codes - if you are a programmer you'll have
some hard time writing it well.
Cheers,
Maxim Maletsky.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:09 PM
To: Maxim Maletsky
Cc: Shane McBride; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Ethics question...
> a customer like Microsoft, Morgan-Stanley, Amazon.com.. yes, but a new
> start-up that thinks: "when we'll grow we'll buy something cooler" will
> crack your soft down (or will ignore your license) ... I've seen it
> happening so many times...
So what? They'll do that anyway unless you spend a significant amount of
energy coming up with weird protection schemes. And even then they are
likely to hack it.
Add a sane license, forget about the people who hack it, chances are these
will turn into sales eventually in some way anyway.
-Rasmus
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