A bit off-topic reply. On 13-8-2004 13:18, "MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded to my mail:
>> Likely, this is a moral aberration I got by being employed as >> scientist. > > Maybe, but there is recently an increasing consideration of > "scientific ethics" and "science and society" topics as we are faced > with public-debate science topics like GM/Frankenstein foods and > theraputic/designer cloning. Perhaps your discovery of this is related > to that in some way, but perhaps not. Thankfully not! I have to deal with ethics in personal life already (like till what the ethical cost -the number of lab mice- for the development of a medicine should be). That is hard enough for me already, thank you. For the record, I'm working in pure optical networks. > On copyright, you do not seem particularly unusual among scientists, > software authors, all authors or the public in general. Many resent > having to deal with these things and I can understand why. I hope you > are finding these discussions helpful. Yes! At least I know have a clear understanding of the consequences of choosing a particular licence. It's not my main interest, but at least now can make a better decision when choosing licence. Thanks to all who gave me feedback! If I was to start a new project now, at least I would be inclined to pick a GPL-compatible, but less restrictive licence. As for current contributions to other projects, I realised now that I can even add those contributions under a different (compatible) licence -- something that never occurred to me before. I don't see why I would do that, though. Because I mostly learned that if you make odd decisions, you really need to know very carefully what you're doing. One thing I haven't mentioned: I may blame the FSF for being a bit to fanatical when it comes to free software (by knowingly imposing barriers to other open-source software). However, I do very much respect them for not only making the problem, but providing a solution as well (in this case in the form of GnuTLS). Now if only I get my just broken hard disk of my server to relive, I can give that a shot. > I think one can argue easily that many people involved are "wrong" in > some way and it is the combination of them that causes this effect. Yes; let's not talk about my mistakes, shall we. This thread is long enough as it is :-) Regards, Freek
