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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2acf1f37f6bdc5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed.inode.at!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Licences Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:12:29 +0200 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <2848671.krLHF4MzJJ@linux1.krischik.com> References: <1129303351.767662.191580@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <6079939.ppPQ0zCOeG@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-73-3-231.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1129458632 21879 84.73.3.231 (16 Oct 2005 10:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:30:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5719 Date: 2005-10-16T12:12:29+02:00 List-Id: Simon Wright wrote: > Martin Krischik writes: >> And actually: All the discussion has made me think and I consider to >> change the licence of the SouceForge projects I am >> administrating. Why should anyone take my work and make money with >> it in a *closed* *source* project - That's freeloading. > Most of the OSS software I have written has been done for the fun of > it. I would have some trouble getting rewarded in cash (need to get > employer's agreement), the fact that other _programmers_ find the > stuff useful is enough. It's a gift culture. True. And most of the time you make gifts for the fun of it as well - but: How long will you make a birthday and Christmas gift to someone who never gives you a gift back? Bun then there is the Ada-Advocacy part as well to be considered - which is probably the strongest argument for the GMGPL. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com