Hi, cho...@jtan.com wrote on Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 09:27:22AM +0200:
> ... as more time goes by the more damage and less advantage I see > by the existence of software licenses. This is imprecise. The *proliferation* of software licenses is indeed a problem, in particular the proliferation of complicated and restrictive ones like GPL, CDDL, and Apache 2.0. The *existence* of a free license is required as long as Copyright exists, and realistically, Copyright is not going to go away soon. Besides, i wouldn't even want Copyright to go away completely. Some aspects of it are good, in particular the moral rights, for example the inalienable right of artists to object to the abuse of their works for slander and the inalienable right of creators to be known as such. You ask many questions about reasons, and almost all of them have complex answers containing more than one sub-reason, so discussing these question would probably drift off-topic. But it is true that license proliferation and incompatibility play a role in some of these cases - but not the fact that every free software needs a free license. There is nothing wrong with that. Yours, Ingo
