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Subject: "Open Core" and the Ada Community
From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
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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