Quoting Ben Tilly (bti...@gmail.com): > Seeing these repeated references to my name is getting annoying.
This seems a little odd. All I said was that I'd recently made that observation to you -- which was factually correct and certainly not any offence to you or anyone else. > You like to take people to task who have assumed that you take one > position or another which you don't. > Please stop assuming that you enlightened me.... Something I neither said nor implied. > stop associating me with a position that I do not hold. Nor this. > Many people who choose permissive licenses have a view that says that > when you don't try to order people around with contracts, goodwill > tends to get repaid down the road. I not only know this, but have written a number of essays pointing that out. > [...] But in the eyes of the person who originally released > the software, you have failed to be generous back to them, and you > have created a barrier to future generosity from people down the road > who use the improved version. (Proprietary software creates less of a > barrier because there is a single entity that may come to see > generosity as being in their enlightened self-interest.) > > Again I am not describing this to say that I hold this view, or that > you should agree with it. Quite the contrary. I am merely offering > it for anyone who wants to understand what may be going through the > head of a person who gets upset about something like this. I'm quite familiar with the viewpoint (and permissive-license significant amounts of my own work for various reasons), but thank you. > If a license does what I want 90% of the time quite well, and fails > 10% of the time, is it better or worse than a license that does > something you find merely OK 100% of the time? Mu. The premise is defective. If the licence doesn't grant the rights you wish granted, then it is defective 100% of the time. Failing to grant the rights you wish to grant might be evidenced by, e.g., 10% of the recipients behaving in ways you intended to disallow, but your chosen terms allowed this, and yet you are surprised. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss