On Wednesday 05 November 2008 12:00, Mibu wrote: > I love it how developers talk about legal issues as if they were > software issues: license compatibility, backward compatibility, dual- > licensing, license interop, adherence to license clauses, migration > to a different license, forking of licenses, license features, > supporting a license or license requirements, license names with > Three-Letter- Acronyms, version numbers, and even the way developers > declare their licenses at the beginning of sources files. ...
You send this as a reply to my message, yet I said nothing of the sort. And perhaps you should ponder the similarity between the formal systems of the law and those of digital information systems. You might find they have more in common than you seem to think. > Lispers were always avant-garde, ignoring convention, only > considering merit. Why can't we debate whether a license is needed at > all for a free project? ... I think the answer is that very few people see it as a matter that requires debate _whether_ a license is required. One has to make formal the conditions under which a work of of technological authorship is made available to the world at large. Programmers work long and hard on their projects, whether large or small, and most of us naturally view the fruits of our labor with a strong sense of ownership. And I'd say that attitude is well deserved. All programming is hard. Library design is harder. Language design is much harder, perhaps even the hardest sub-discipline of all on the software side of IT. > Mibu > > (Too idealistic? Hey, it's a flame war. Just playing by the rules...) You have some odd ideas. No one is flaming. There is no war. And if there is an idealism in what you suggest, it's barely discernable. Unless perhaps it is that you renounce all notions of ownership, perhaps only for intellectual property. You're entitled to that viewpoint, of course, but don't expect to find many technologists to share such a view. Randall Schulz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
