On Thursday 14 February 2013 19:25:22 michael noble wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > This is where we differ, at least on the surface of it. I think that it > > is unethical > > to make people ask you permission after you publicly released something. > > When I release a tune or a story or an invention, I do not aim to become > > a tyrant, who, by virtue of his work now has the world grant him a > > positive obligation. > > > > The common decency you speak about is not common to me. To me making > > people asking permission is being a jerk. > > You are reading in language which was never used to argue against a case > that was not made. He didn't claim that it was right to "make" people ask, > he just said that asking was the decent thing to do, something with which I > fully agree. The same technologies that make copying infinitely more easy > also make communication infinitely more easy, so I don't see why its an > invasion of liberty to seek permission for appropriation whenever possible. I release my stuff BY-SA and GPL. I don't want you to ask about that stuff. Send me a link to what you have done if you like. I do like being surprised at how different things people do can be to what I had originally conceived. Plus, permssion does not scale. It is monopoly firendly, not Freedom friendly in a netwroked world. all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
