I really think that for the copyleft strategy to furthering software freedom,
*volume* of programs under the GPL is not the most important factor, but rather
the strategic value of the program.
If I license my little script under the GPL, that is good, but if no one would
ever have wanted to make
On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 07:33 +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> Did you measure https://sourceforge.net/ ?
>
> Did you measure Bitbucket, Gitlab, private, FTP sites, non-GNU
> Savannah, and GNU Savannah or Launchpad?
>
> Without proper measurement of statistics, the GPL is not in decline
> for me. Because
Software libre is a matter of justice. We care about the movement
because we care about the justice for all. It's not the price that
brings justice but it's opportunity and freedom.
When we talk about copyleft, we're talking about giving all people the
same opportunity that we had. Copyleft makes
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> Hi All,
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* Pen-Yuan Hsing [2020-09-28 05:29]:
> > Their wordings for the MIT license is:
> >
> > The MIT License is short and to the point. It lets people do almost
> > anything they want with your project, like making and distributing
> > closed source versions.
> >
> > Their wording is not quite nice,
What a great analysis and discussion. Thank you very much, Pen-Yuan
Hsing and all participants!
For me, freedom seen as the center of the discussion is a great success
for us. Most people think economy is the main topic. But freedom is the
mother of economy (without freedom, there could not be eco
Hi All,
I am planning to apply for a session in upcoming LibrePlanet conference, to
present a topic on this project.
Here is the self-shot version of the presentation,
https://fs333.gounlimited.to/tea5ur5c2h2qzxfffn4yv5jg53piwzbdni5tp7o7twot3lgjhc2w5gxv2g5a/v.mp4
Please leave me a feedback. :-
* Pen-Yuan Hsing [2020-09-28 05:30]:
> > Maybe it is this one:
> > https://github.blog/2015-03-09-open-source-license-usage-on-github-com/
>
> That could very well be it, thank you for finding it! While there is a
> substantial number of copyleft-licensed software shown in that graph, they
> are
* Pen-Yuan Hsing [2020-09-28 05:48]:
> > I cannot see there possible violation of the GPL.
> >
> > You can use R and make R programs which are proprietary. You can have
> > bash shell and have shell scripts which are proprietary. You can have
> > proprietary program producing automatically shell
