Russell McOrmond wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:38 PM Moritz Maxeiner <m...@ucw.sh> wrote: > > Why does my wish for derivative works of certain software to be available > to > the public (and legitimate use of the law to achieve that) bother you so > much? > Why your fixation on "compensation"? > > > I am offended by any alleged legitimacy granted to the exclusive rights of > software authors being allowed to regulate private activities. As part of > my public > policy advocacy work I have always tried to convince policy makers > (bureaucrats and politicians) to carve private activities out of copyright, > and to ensure > that contract law can never be abused to circumvent the limitations and > exceptions to these exclusive rights. In other words, I've spent decades > trying to > ensure the very clauses you wish to add to your "Open Source" license would > be unenforceable.
Fwiw, most of the free software I released in the 1980s, before GPL existed, had the clause "You are free to use this software but any modifications/corrections/bug fixes you make must be sent back to me so they may be included in future updates." I am offended by the notion that someone may benefit from code that I released for free, but would deny anyone else the benefit of improvements they make (privately or not) to my code. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
