On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:35:23AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I suggest your participate more into these communities, learn about the GNU >> GPL (and not about some imaginary license you keep bringing about), and then >> advocate it to the people who don't know. > > I can't advocate it because I believe its terms are immoral. That's rich! Made my day already :) >>>> You seem to consider "sharing" proprietary software is sharing. I think >>>> that's wrong since to me it is not sharing but, instead, gaining control. >>> No, I think proprietary software is reasonable >> >> I think this wrap ups very well all your argument. You start from a >> premise that I fundamentally reject as absurd, and from the absurd >> anything can be deduced. > > Proprietary works are a side issue here as I am more concerned about the > restrictions against combinations with MPL, CDDL, orginal BSD and other > less resticted licenses, but do you think it is reasonable to require > payment for your work in any field? And if so, how is creating software > different from other work? To require payment for my work? Absolutely. Now how do you define payment? I can see many forms of payment: * cash * self satisfaction * benemerity * gratefulness * ... And I fully support that people develop GPL'ed software for hire. >>> but BSD, MIT, MPL, CDDL, Apache, and similar less restricted >>> licenses are about sharing. GPL is about taking away other people's >>> choices. >> >> How can something that isn't there be taken away? The GNU GPL adds to >> people's choices. The default is no choice at all. > > The GPL is no different than a proprietary license in that respect. Now I am *sure* you are trolling. Rui -- Kallisti! Today is Setting Orange, the 59th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
