On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Ben Tilly ([email protected]): [...] >> If the license dissuades people that you would like to have using your >> software, it is also defective. >> >> Licenses have multiple potential failure modes. Not all of which >> happen in a court room. There is value in standardized licenses. >> There is value in simple licenses. Sometimes this value outweighs the >> value of having said *exactly* what you want said. > > Indeed. > > Death and taxes hereby incorporated by reference. > > Suggestion: What the world really needs is a book listing all ways > to go wrong with licensing. Might be your calling, Ben.
I think that high on the list should be, "Accepting advice from people who are unqualified to give it." Which disqualifies me pretty soundly. I'll go back to Perl, math and A/B testing. I know those pretty well. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
