New Essay - "FOSS Licences Wars"

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 21 August 2009 12:58:13 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have published a new essay about free software licences:
>
> http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences-wa
>rs/
>
> Any comments will be welcome.

Excellent essay! I like the way you immediately revealed your predjudice (pro-
MIT) so as to get that out of the way. I disagree with some of your 
conclusions, but obviously your facts are spot on.

I especially like this:

3. Write a GPLed server for solving Freecell that the graphical game would 
communicate with using TCP/IP or a different IPC mechanism.

That's an excellent encapsulation method not only for variables, but for 
licenses too.

SteveT

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