New Essay - "FOSS Licences Wars"

[Ori Idan]

I also like the article, it really shows most of the licenses and explains
them.
I would be happy if it contains more information about the clauses in BSD
licenses.

As for myself I prefer writing GPL applications as GPL license keeps the
software free so it actually defends me from people that will take my
software and make it propriatry.

-- 
Ori Idan


On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> On Friday 21 August 2009 22:07:17 Steve Litt wrote:
> > 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!
>
> Thanks!
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> Thanks. I would be happy to hear any arguments you have against my
> conclusions. Maybe I'll change my opinions.
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> Yes. It's not always feasible to do that. For example, you cannot do it
> with
> the strong-copyleft Berkeley DB or the formerly GPLed Qt, without really
> killing performance *and* going through a lot of trouble. But it is often
> an
> option, as is the case for a Freecell solver.
>
> BTW, I do actually have some aspirations of creating a web-service for fc-
> solve in order to provide hints for
> http://cards.wikia.com/wiki/World_of_Solitaire or a similar online
> Solitaire
> game. So it seems some of the hypothetical anti-GPL measures are actually
> otherwise useful technologically.
>
> Best regards,
>
>        Shlomi Fish
>
> > SteveT
> >
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> >
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