On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Exactly. If opencog were ever to reach the point of > popularity where one might consider a change of > licensing, it would also be the case that most of the > interested parties would *not* be under SIAI control, > and thus would almost surely fork the code. This is > effectively designed into the license -- one cannot > take away from the commons. > Attempting to remove code from the commons would be unlikely (and probably also unwise). On the other hand, adding 'don't be evil' type use restrictions would change the nature of the license, certainly making it incompatible with the existing licencse and perhaps making it technically non-free, but such changes wouldn't necessarily make the license un-free or remove code from the commons. On the community dynamics side, working to gain support for re-defining 'free software' as applied to AGI to inlcude 'don't be evil' restrictions is a distinct possibility. -dave ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
