Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Potential of the Sleepycat License

2017-04-17 Thread Michael Pagan
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

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Potential of the Sleepycat License

2017-04-17 Thread Aaron Wolf
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

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Potential of the Sleepycat License

2017-04-17 Thread Michael Pagan
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

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Potential of the Sleepycat License

2017-04-17 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Oh my! That first comment in the topic you linked, that was an interesting and fun thing to read. :) -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre, por isso não uso. Iguais a ele

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Potential of the Sleepycat License

2017-04-17 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Potential of the Sleepycat License

2017-04-17 Thread Nicolás A . Ortega
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.

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Potential of the Sleepycat License

2017-04-17 Thread Nicolás A . Ortega
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

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Potential of the Sleepycat License

2017-04-17 Thread Nicolás A . Ortega
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