RG <rnospa...@flownet.com> writes: > In article <ho7v0o$rf...@news.eternal-september.org>, > Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavall...@pas.espam.s.il.vous.plait.mac.com> > wrote: > >> On 2010-03-21 22:14:30 -0400, Pascal J. Bourguignon said: >> >> > Sure. >> > >> > And the question remains why you should imposes your choices on me? >> >> Not only am I not imposing anything on you, I've already offered to pay >> you for a commercial license. So you can have your cake (GPL licensing) >> and eat it too (paid commercial licensing). >> >> My principal objection to the GPL is that its license requirements >> regarding opening source code make it very unpopular with many >> commercial developers, and therefore whenever possible, they choose >> non-GPL alternatives. > > That's a much better way of putting it than your original formulation. > >> In short, I don't think GPL licensing gets you anything additional in >> terms of getting code open sourced. > > ... > >> I think people should avoid GPL licensing their work as a pragmatic >> means of ensuring maximal adoption. > > Here is where you are imposing your choices on others. Not everyone > shares this quality metric of yours. Some people have goals other than > insuring maximal adoption, like, oh, I don't know, making money for > example. Such people might want to use the copyright laws not to force > others to create open-source software but to create artificial scarcity > in order to drive up prices. One can argue whether or not this strategy > will be effective. One can argue (as Stallman does) that one ought not > choose this quality metric for moral or political reasons. But neither > the quality metric nor the strategy are unreasonable a priori.
Indeed these are the questions. I will have to think more about it, and may be change the licence in the future (perhaps this year). I also would like to contribute some of my code to some common library and this would certainly require a change of license anyway. But I need more time to think about it and work on it. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss