On Jun 23, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Zach Welch wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:57 +0100, Spencer Oliver wrote: [snip]GPL is important, but i do not understand people's objections to adding anexception -who exactly is this hurting?Would you like to kick me in the nuts, while saying things like this? The effect would feel little different.Such exceptions hurt professional software developers that want to makea living developing free and open source software -- like me. I thinkthey hurt the entire free and open source software movements, actually.
From an economic standpoint, your contributions to an open source project gain you no pay and cost you time. That cost is sunk. Regardless of if a distribution is free (as in price) or for pay, you have already invested time that you received no compensation for. The claims that an license exception or commercial distribution will impact your mortgage or ability to make a living is false. You just seem to have a problem with someone else profiting from your free contribution regardless of what they have done to justify their price.
-- Rick Altherr kc8...@kc8apf.net"He said he hadn't had a byte in three days. I had a short, so I split it with him."
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