Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals, el 24 de June a las 18:46 me escribiste: > On 6/24/14, 5:23 PM, David Nadlinger wrote: > >On 25 Jun 2014, at 0:55, Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals wrote: > >>What seems pointless to me is this long and protracted discussion > >>around... around what? What or whom are we talking about protecting > >>here? It's not a practical matter, and it's not a matter of > >>principles. If protecting the copyright of one's work is high on one's > >>list of priorities, OSS is not the best place to be. > >> > >>Crap has happened before, among reasonable people, and in ways that > >>had not been predicted. We don't have money. We don't have lawyers. We > >>don't want to spend time analyzing, projecting, estimating, or > >>speculating. We want to keep things simple and save everybody involved > >>complications while keeping everything as open as possible. This very > >>discussion is a huge waste of time wanking over nothing. What the heck > >>are we even _talking_ about, folks? > > > >You know what's funny about this, Andrei? > > > >I don't know whether you realize it or not, but your message could be > >used equally well _against_ requiring copyright assignment. > > > >To put it another way, if you don't think it's worth the discussion, > >let's go the path of least resistance, to continue what we are doing and > >not require copyright assignment. > > A fair point, but I see it a different way. > > The creator, first implementer, and main contributor of the D > programming language is asking for something that would make his > life simpler and asks me for a bureaucracy token.
Why? I still don't get it. All the rest makes no sense at all unless you can answer that question. > It doesn't impact the usefulness of my work and doesn't take away > credit for public work I do, and the person asking is about as candid > as it could ever get. > > I've done a lot "worse" in the past. All of my books are copyrighted > by Addison-Wesley Longman. My name is on two patents owned by > Facebook. Most articles I wrote are copyrighted by whoever published > them. All of my videos are copyrighted by the respective > organizations and events, some of which I believe are > stereotypically evil corporations. All were a lot of hard work. Some > of these were paid for, but most not. Had I started a debate like > this with them, their lawyers would have probably ceased the > collaboration and everybody would have been worse off, and most of > all the "greater good". Being liberal about making my work available > and letting credit reach me instead of obsessing over it may as well > be the best policy I've held throughout my career. > > Now am I to self-righteously argue with Walter Bright just because > he's more accessible and doesn't have lawyers to slice and dice > things for him? I wouldn't find that an honorable thing to do. > > I'm out of this discussion. I'll let Walter decide. If he decides to > forgo potential contributions from people afraid he'll steal their > work, so be it. > > > Andrei > _______________________________________________ > dmd-internals mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- El techo de mi cuarto lleno de planetas Y mi mente es un planeta más Donde vivo yo y nadie podrá entrar Jamás _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
