From: "Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Licenses - Confusion
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 23:36:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519E8BD2.2070502@glondu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C6FD1926B72D449E8139A262070D7D33@erratique.ch>
Le 23/05/2013 10:41, Daniel Bünzli a écrit :
>> I would say BSD-style licenses cater for the needs of organizations, and
>> GPL-style ones cater for individuals.
>
>
> Well as everyone seems to know and speak for the others, here's my take.
>
> Regardless of copyleft -- which I'm certain could be expressed in a BSD-like concise way -- I would personally say that BSD-style licenses are for humans and GPL-style for lawyers.
>
> If you need a lawyer to understand your freedom you are not free anymore. Stop feeding the lawyers and the bureaucrats.
Humans don't care about licenses. They do whatever is technically
possible, guided by their conscience.
License are there because of bad practices of the software industry
(hidden sources, patents, etc.). Mathematics (theorems and proofs) have
been developped freely of any licences since Antiquity.
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-23 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-22 12:34 oliver
2013-05-22 12:39 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2013-05-22 16:40 ` Marek Kubica
2013-05-22 13:02 ` Török Edwin
2013-05-22 17:19 ` Adrien Nader
2013-05-23 6:36 ` Stéphane Glondu
2013-05-23 8:41 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-05-23 21:07 ` Marek Kubica
2013-05-23 21:36 ` Stéphane Glondu [this message]
2013-05-23 22:28 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-05-23 21:39 ` Ernesto Posse
2013-05-23 21:45 ` Chet Murthy
2013-05-23 22:11 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2013-05-23 22:52 ` oliver
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