From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: "Open Core" and the Ada Community
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 18:37:11 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2016-01-06T18:37:11-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76fc7aab-fea5-4d7a-91e7-ace006e1309a@googlegroups.com> (raw)
This article is written by Bradley M. Kuhn who is in charge of enforcing the GPL for the Linux Kernel
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/10/16/open-core-shareware.html
My own words:
The spirit of GPL has long since died with corporations using the GPL to restrict freedoms for corporate gains and to cripple new development and innovation.
There needs to be an Open Source Code of Ethics. A clause added to the BSD/MIT license saying using this software binds you to the shame clause.
I no longer see a point in choosing GPL over BSD/MIT licenses. Those that have a community ethic will act accordingly and be good citizens of open source, the rest use the GPL as a weapon to harm the community.
May as well open the door and remove blocks from our code and the honest be honest and the abusers be shamed.
David Botton
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2016-01-07 2:37 David Botton [this message]
2016-01-07 18:20 ` "Open Core" and the Ada Community Dirk Heinrichs
2016-01-07 19:01 ` David Botton
2016-01-07 19:44 ` David Botton
2016-01-07 20:53 ` Simon Wright
2016-01-08 16:50 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2016-01-07 20:22 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-08 8:36 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2016-01-09 19:08 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-09 19:23 ` Luke A. Guest
2016-01-09 20:52 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-10 1:51 ` Paul Rubin
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