On 17 Apr 2017 at 14:22, Nicolás A. Ortega wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 11:32:58PM -0400, Michael Pagan wrote:
>>
>> This is the direct strategy employed by the GNU Project. I believe RMS
>> got it right when he decided that the license that should be chosen for
>> a library should be based
On 04/17/2017 03:02 PM, Michael Pagan wrote:
> Aaron Wolf wrote:
>> On 04/16/2017 08:32 PM, Michael Pagan wrote:
>>
>>> the work must be under the same license as the original work, too.
>>
>> To be picky and pedantic, what matters for copyleft is merely that the
>> freedoms
Aaron Wolf wrote:
> On 04/16/2017 08:32 PM, Michael Pagan wrote:
>
>> the work must be under the same license as the original work, too.
>
> To be picky and pedantic, what matters for copyleft is merely that the
> freedoms may not be stripped away. It doesn't matter whether
Oh my! That first comment in the topic you linked, that was an
interesting and fun thing to read. :)
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I wouldn't say that the difference is in what the licenses provide to
"developers", because --- although I *don't want to* sound offensive ---
thinking about the "developers" here is a little too much, it's like the
"how I'll feed my children". :)
So, as far as I understand it: copyleft and so
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 11:32:58PM -0400, Michael Pagan wrote:
> Nicolás A. Ortega writes:
>
> > I've tried having this discussion on #fsf and #gnu, and I think that
> > this license has the potential to be a great software license,
> > especially for libraries.
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 06:21:50PM -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> I'm enjoying this discussion; it is helping clarify my thoughts in the
> matter. Please don't take my objections as anything more than a
> personal opinion. As always, you are free to choose the license for
> your code, and I am free
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 04:17:31PM -0400, Adam Van Ymeren wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Nicolás A. Ortega <
> deathsbr...@themusicinnoise.net> wrote:
>
> > Not necessarily. The MIT license gives the user the same freedoms as the
> > xGPL, however it is more relaxed and preferred by