On Jul 24, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> What are your objections to it, if any? > It's not clear. Would that permit a piece of covered code to be > included in a CDDL-covered work and vice versa? I'm way beyond the point of believing you care or believe my understanding of software licenses. So you tell me, would it? > History shows that much software that is currently freely shared was > once developed as proprietary versions Was it derived from Free Software in the first place? Otherwise your bringing it up is meaningless for the sake of the argument. >> If anything, the payment for my work should be divided by all >> users, so that each of them pays less. > Suppose it is a work that requires 10 people to complete. Will you > pay the other 9 up front first, knowing that any of them have the > right to redistribute the code before you are paid? I don't see how the question relates with what I proposed. Are we talking past each other? > Why would your customer pay for that first copy, knowing no one else > has to share the cost? And you can't charge less than the full amount Here's a plan: - I charge the first customer, that hired the software development, a fair price for the work I did. - This customer is entitled to further distribute it or sell it, since it's Free Software. - I help the customer set up a plan to recover some of the investment: I commit to not publishing the software before a certain date, except to customers who join an "early access group", and we invite others to join this group for a fee that shrinks as more customers join. The fee is split over all previously-joining customers. None of them are under any obligation to not distribute the software any further. - Once they reach a goal number or a date, I make the software available to everyone. >> The GPL does respect it, even though it sets forth conditions to stop >> you from not respecting others' freedoms. > The GPL forces a choice between one kind of restriction or another. You're yet to show any evidence of an actual (rather than imagined) restriction in the GPL. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
