From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2F557EE51 for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 23:36:19 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of steph@glondu.net) identity=pra; client-ip=138.231.136.39; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="steph@glondu.net"; x-sender="steph@glondu.net"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of steph@glondu.net) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=138.231.136.39; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="steph@glondu.net"; x-sender="steph@glondu.net"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: domain of postmaster@redisdead.crans.org designates 138.231.136.39 as permitted sender) identity=helo; client-ip=138.231.136.39; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="steph@glondu.net"; x-sender="postmaster@redisdead.crans.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtEAAAOJnlGK54gnmWdsb2JhbABZgzmDOrwIgmyBDBYOAQEBAQEICwsHFCiCJAEFI1URCxoCBRYLAgIJAwIBAgFFEwgCiAkEqCyRS4EmjUQ6FoIrgRMDlzuGHo4z X-IPAS-Result: AtEAAAOJnlGK54gnmWdsb2JhbABZgzmDOrwIgmyBDBYOAQEBAQEICwsHFCiCJAEFI1URCxoCBRYLAgIJAwIBAgFFEwgCiAkEqCyRS4EmjUQ6FoIrgRMDlzuGHo4z X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,730,1363129200"; d="scan'208";a="18753663" Received: from redisdead.crans.org ([138.231.136.39]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 23 May 2013 23:36:19 +0200 Received: from [10.125.1.2] (fbx.up7.fr [81.56.96.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by redisdead.crans.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 55F9320C9 for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 23:36:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <519E8BD2.2070502@glondu.net> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 23:36:18 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?U3TDqXBoYW5lIEdsb25kdQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130518 Icedove/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <20130522123427.GA1894@siouxsie> <519CC1C8.3060502@etorok.net> <20130522171907.GA6073@notk.org> <519DB8D2.5080102@glondu.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 OpenPGP: id=49881AD3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Licenses - Confusion Le 23/05/2013 10:41, Daniel B=C3=BCnzli a =C3=A9crit : >> I would say BSD-style licenses cater for the needs of organizations, and >> GPL-style ones cater for individuals. >=20 >=20 > Well as everyone seems to know and speak for the others, here's my take.= =20=20 >=20 > Regardless of copyleft -- which I'm certain could be expressed in a BSD-l= ike concise way -- I would personally say that BSD-style licenses are for h= umans and GPL-style for lawyers. >=20 > If you need a lawyer to understand your freedom you are not free anymore.= Stop feeding the lawyers and the bureaucrats. Humans don't care about licenses. They do whatever is technically possible, guided by their conscience. License are there because of bad practices of the software industry (hidden sources, patents, etc.). Mathematics (theorems and proofs) have been developped freely of any licences since Antiquity. Cheers, --=20 St=C3=A9phane