[hackers-il] New Essay - "FOSS Licences Wars"

[Dotan Cohen]

> Thanks for submitting this story to Slashdot, (which got it accepted
> eventually). I submitted it too, but I didn't see it published. I'm not sure
> I understood the teaser paragraph:
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<
> Here's an exercise: Write a GPLed server for solving Freecell that the
> graphical game would communicate with using TCP/IP or a different IPC
> mechanism. Easy, right? Except for that pesky licensing bit. Our own Shlomi
> Fish gives an overview of the various options in picking up a licence for
> one's FOSS project, and tries to give some guidelines choosing one."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> What I meant by giving the GPLed Freecell solving server example was that
> it's an option even if one only has found a strong-copylefted
> Freecell-solving library, which can work around the licence's limitations,
> and will allow you to use it withing programs of incompatible licences. On
> the other hand, you implied that it may not be an option due to the licence.
> But I may not read you correctly.
>

I meant that licensing issues would be the main challenge in writing
and distributing the software, as opposed to a programming challenge.


> Anyway, thanks - I'll try to read the comments when I have some spare
> cycles. Oh, and I'm planning to respond to Mikhael Goikhman ("Migo") email
> too later as well.
>

Don't browse at -1 unless you want to get offended! There were some
trolls there, but I conveniently had some modpoints at just the right
time.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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