From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 11:13:14 +0200
Date: 2012-05-29T11:13:19+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4fc4932f$0$6548$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <280411e312fcf03741189158e0c986b4@dizum.com>
On 29.05.12 09:31, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> For example if you teach a person something or give him an answer to a
> problem and then he presents it as his own work, everyone should view him
> as an ungrateful scoundrel and cheat. This is the way human interaction
> works, "credit where credit is due" is expected proper behavior. Plagiarism
> is already viewed as misconduct to the point of criminal liability in some
> cases, and attribution is an established basic social requirement. I don't
> view that as a licensing restriction since it applies to everything.
>
> It has nothing to do with software specifically, it is related to how people
> conduct themselves everywhere in society.
Well put. Behavior is governed by norms. Some informal, some formal.
What if the norms are violated? A partial answer is found in
Terms and Conditions of licenses.
An individual Y creating a work of software sometimes misbehaves
by someone else's standards. For example, by the standards of licensor X.
Whatever Y's motives might be, Y has behaved in a way that X finds
unacceptable.
If X is a software developer, what should X do about Y's behavior?
Enter licenses.
Considering the example you have described:
> For example if you teach a person something or give him an answer to a
> problem and then he presents it as his own work, everyone should view him
> as an ungrateful scoundrel and cheat.
Public disdain exists, as did pillories, for good or bad.
In any case, the "should" part of "everyone should" is
typically translated into The Law, whenever a society feels
these norms had better be formalized.
So, misbehavior and a desire to sanction them leads to licenses,
directly:
If X wishes to prevent others from infringing X's rights through
misconduct, then X is free to pick a license that helps establish
this goal (of proper conduct), using legal force as necessary,
or desired.
Licenses help X when Y will otherwise ignore X when X asks for
proper conduct. And we are free to not care about Y's misconduct.
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-28 10:08 ANN: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2 Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-28 11:36 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-05-28 11:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-28 14:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-28 18:19 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-05-28 17:55 ` ANN: " Simon Wright
2012-05-28 20:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-28 19:23 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-28 20:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-28 21:05 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-29 2:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-29 7:21 ` Simon Wright
2012-05-29 1:44 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-28 13:42 ` Kulin
2012-05-28 14:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-28 18:34 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-05-28 19:13 ` Simon Wright
2012-05-28 19:20 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-29 2:18 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-29 9:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-29 16:11 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-29 16:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-29 17:39 ` georg bauhaus
2012-05-29 22:45 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-31 0:28 ` BrianG
2012-05-29 21:35 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-05-30 18:21 ` Zhu Qun-Ying
2012-05-30 20:46 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-05-30 22:14 ` Zhu Qun-Ying
2012-06-01 18:12 ` darkestkhan
2012-05-29 8:23 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-05-29 12:32 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-05-29 16:15 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-29 22:48 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-05-29 23:31 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-29 2:06 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-29 7:31 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-05-29 9:13 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2012-05-29 7:58 ` Gustaf Thorslund
2012-05-29 18:25 ` onox
2012-05-30 20:56 ` Gustaf Thorslund
2012-05-29 16:45 ` Thomas Løcke
2012-05-29 21:00 ` Kulin
2012-05-29 22:26 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-30 16:38 ` Fritz Wuehler
2012-05-30 18:34 ` Kulin
2012-05-31 2:17 ` BrianG
2012-06-01 18:25 ` darkestkhan
2012-06-02 0:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-02 5:43 ` darkestkhan
2012-06-02 7:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-02 8:06 ` Simon Wright
2012-06-02 10:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-02 13:59 ` darkestkhan
2012-06-02 16:31 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-02 16:33 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-02 19:30 ` Simon Wright
2012-06-02 20:29 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-02 19:31 ` darkestkhan
2012-06-02 20:49 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-03 6:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-02 10:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-02 11:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-02 14:44 ` darkestkhan
2012-06-02 16:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-02 17:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-02 19:40 ` darkestkhan
2012-06-02 20:59 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-03 8:14 ` Simon Wright
2012-06-03 8:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-03 10:45 ` Nomen Nescio
2012-06-03 18:17 ` Simon Wright
2012-05-29 22:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-28 17:42 ` ANN: " Simon Wright
2012-05-29 1:59 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-29 7:16 ` Simon Wright
2012-05-31 2:35 ` BrianG
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