On Saturday 10 January 2009 16:03:32 David Gowers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Alpár Jüttner <alpar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> GIMP is GPL and has always been. If you don't like the GPL license, for > >> whatever reason, then you should not contribute to this project. > > > > Interesting. I knew that GIMP developers must accept GPL as the license > > of GIMP, but it is new to me that they are also required like it. > > Do not twist Sven's words. > All he said was, in effect, 'if the license bothers you, it's not wise > for you to contribute to this project.' It's not a matter of GIMP > project policy or requirements, simply a matter of having the personal > judgment and wisdom to contribute either wholeheartedly or not at all. > This is called "all-or-nothing thinking" and is the signature cognitive fallacy of Perfectionism, and as documented in "Feeling Good" by David Burns (see http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/books-recommends/#feeling_good ) can cause depressions and other mood disorders. It's normally impossible to contribute to something wholeheartedly, so according to your logic, I should not contribute to anything at all because I'll always have reservations. I contributed to GIMP despite its choice of licence, because I like using it, and because it's the best of breed among open-source image manipulation programs, and because I think its choice of licence does not really affect its use, and because I wanted to make it better. I should note that GIMP is not the only GPLed product I've contributed to. Would I prefer it if GIMP was under a different licence? Yes, but I'm still happily contributing to it despite that. I'm not required to like every aspect of a project in order to contribute to it. There are very few if any perfect projects out there, so I have to settle with ones that are not perfect but still pretty good. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > David > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://xrl.us/bkeuk <mauke> I'm not interested in what you're doing; what are you trying to achieve? <PerlJam> mauke: I'm trying to achieve world peace and this regex is the last thing standing in my way! ;) _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
