On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 8:35 AM Johnny A. Solbu <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tuesday 25 February 2020 16:43, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > I am one of those who fully agree with Eric Raymond on this. Social justice clauses /Does Not/ belong in licenses, in any form. > I agree, for reasons stated. Adding such clauses makes any software using such a license, proprietary > software. > Not unless they limit the rights of licensors. If you are an aggressive software patenter, you can still use and modify GPLed software, even though you have to endure being condemned by the FSF as a threat to all software everywhere. (The absence of software patents is clearly one of the "conditions we require to accomplish open-source cooperation".) John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan [email protected] Cash registers don't really add and subtract; they only grind their gears. But then they don't really grind their gears, either; they only obey the laws of physics. --Unknown
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