From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:08:08 -0500 From: Dave Burton To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Redistribution In-Reply-To: <8iteic$17v@gap.cco.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: c7ce6bfa-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Damien Raphael Sullivan wrote: | >I must admit I find the fissiparous nature of the Open Source/FSF | >community a little dispiriting. We're just trying to make stuff | >available. Please accept it in the spirit in which it's offered. | | One could argue that making stuff available under fissiparous licenses doesn't | help. People know what the GPL, LGPL, and BSD licenses mean, and that | software under those licenses is free. They may argue over whether the GPL is | too restrictive or BSD too lax, but they know where the software stands, and | can work or not as they choose. | | When people see yet another license fresh from the corporate lawyers, they | worry over what's contained in the legalese. Which people don't like reading | and decoding. And they assume there must be some non-free component to the | license, else why not use one of the existing licenses? Good grief! Can this be moved off this list? I cannot believe that so many people are bitching about the license. Lucent *GAVE* the sources away. All you have to do is follow some pretty basic, common-sense rules to enjoy it. Or go away and play with your other licensed software and be happy elsewhere. If anyone solves world hunger, someone will complain because the food was not cooked just the way they like it. -- Dave