From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090401204218.GD16666@tuxbookpro.rit.edu> References: <49D35353.7020400@aspector.com> <3e1162e60904010748w2d0aac8v307089b295f39ca4@mail.gmail.com> <49D382A2.9040001@aspector.com> <3e1162e60904010920l1f78e32dx2eb0e4c51dc237a7@mail.gmail.com> <49D39B0F.2030508@aspector.com> <1238608248.22573.19384.camel@work> <49D3C83C.9040608@aspector.com> <20090401201908.GC2577@home.power> <20090401204218.GD16666@tuxbookpro.rit.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:47:29 -0600 Message-ID: From: Latchesar Ionkov To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] J9P/StyxLib Topicbox-Message-UUID: d04acd80-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Are you sure there will be any improvements of your code if nobody wants to use it because of the license? Lucho On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:42 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:19:08PM +0300, Alex Efros wrote: >> Hi! >> >> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:02:04PM +0200, Bernd R. Fix wrote: >> > 2.) You have an OS project with a different, incompatible license >> > =A0 =A0 and want to include a GPL project or base some work on it. >> > >> > =A0 =A0 I am sure that this problem occurred many times in the past; m= aybe >> > =A0 =A0 there even exists a 'best practice' approach how to deal with = this. >> > >> > To be honest: I don't think that the first case is an argument against >> > the GPL - not for me. I am more worried about the second case. >> > >> > So my question to you licensing experts: is there a better license tha= t >> > follows my basic statement (see above) and allows better "integration" >> > into other OS licenses? If I have a better license model, I am certain= ly >> > willing to change to it. >> >> For libraries it usually solved using LGPL instead of GPL. >> >> >> P.S. As for me, I'd like to try to make world a little better, and don't >> bother much about reusing my code in commercial projects or even removin= g >> my name from sources - so I use Public Domain for all my applications an= d >> libraries. >> >> GPL is a virus, designed to war against commercial software. That's not = my war. > > Though this is certainly rms's intention, I'm not aware of a license that > guarantees you get modifications to your source code back, and that is im= portant > to me as well. I don't really want people to improve on my ideas without = helping > me in the process, and there are a lot of people will do just that. > > So while the "forcible sharing" of the GPL is kind of fascist, I don't se= e any > other way to have the guarantee that improvements to your code by others = are made > available to you. > >> >> -- >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WBR, Alex. >> > >