From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a875d9649dde34e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!spool.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:30:02 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GWindows and a future home for it References: <2004100609152216807%david@bottoncom> <1097075228.200924@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1097094602.726795@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@nightcrawler.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1097094602 2671 204.253.250.10 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4838 Date: 2004-10-06T16:30:02-04:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: > The SDC site contains articles and links to articles explaining all > this. The gist of Fair Source is: the source code is released openly and > publicly, but commercial use must cut a deal. We believe in this model > being more fair to authors than open source, and even being more true to > the open source spirit, than the existing open source licenses. It is definitely not true to the free software spirit, as espoused by the FSF. And the practical problems of such "fair source" licenses will doom them. This is exactly the same issue that doomed Microsoft's SenderID proposal - the requirement that downstream users, no matter how many generations removed, must locate and get licensing for the full set of fair source pacakages that are incorporated in the program. The weight of legal and accounting requirements to track these is just as heavy as for closed-source packages. Note in contrast how simple the GPL is - you simply distribute under its terms. No one must be located, no licensing must be negotiated. Just because some programmer wants to make money does not obligate anyone else to march to his drumbeat. If using his software involves procedural and finacial annoyance, then it's far simpler not to use it.