>> The implication that anyone who prefers a freer license must "always >> want to be a taker and never a giver" is not only logically >> unjustifiable and factually wrong but outright insulting. > That is great. But the issue is not the people that contribute but > the people like MS who take the code use it and don't give anything > back.
I don't see the issue. That's happened with software I've written. Hasn't noticeably impaired my, or anyone else's as far as I know, use of what I wrote. The presence of pure takers does not diminish what the givers have. That's how gift/abundance cultures work. > The GPL [tries] to keep that from happening. So, it's not that people that prefer the BSD license "always want to be a taker and never a giver", but that they don't want to prevent other people from being so? If so, then, speaking personally -- that's exactly right. I don't want to impose that - or any other conditions - on anyone. That's what free software is all about to me: freedom. Including freedom for others to do things I wouldn't do or just don't like. Or even just the freedom to build software drawing on pieces with, collectively, more than one license, which the GPL is relatively hostile to. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
