On Friday 07 July 2006 18:39, Andy Lester wrote: > Those who disagree with Shlomi on licenses are small-headed and > ignorant. Got it. > > Keep digging that hole, Mr. Fish! >
That's not what I said or meant. What I meant was that someone here said and I quote: http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-qa%40perl.org/msg06038.html <<<<<<<<<<< Personally, I'm happy enough to sign my modules as "licenced under the same terms as Perl itself", thereby letting other people deal with a matter for which I have next to no interest in. My own take on this is that even if your code was better, I wouldn't use it, since I couldn't be sure that my use of it may in some way violate its terms. At least I know where I stand with the GPL and AL. Life is short, and the less I have to think about licensing issues, the better. >>>>>>>>>>>>> From my interpretation, what he said was "I don't care to understand licenses enough so I don't want to be bothere with it." Now I think this is a rather small-minded approach to this issue, which I think is very bad. Perhaps, the response to Ovid about it instead of this message was not appropriate, or I may have misunderstood what Ovid said. You said: <<< Those who disagree with Shlomi on licenses are small-headed and ignorant. Got it. >>> That's not true. Like I said - I release all my original software under BSD-style licences. Some people would believe that the GPL or the LGPL would be more appropriate for it. So they and I disagree. But I do not claim they are small-headed and ignorant. What I did claim that people who refuse to understand the various common open source licences and when it is appropriate to use one of them, are acting small-mindedly (or "small-headedly") in this context. Please do not try to give your own labeling interpretation to what I said before you made sure you understand what I'm saying. (I'm reachable on IM during most of my waking hours, if you want to ask me to clarify things.). I think I've spent enough precious time and energy on this thread, which is pretty much useless. And my head hurts from trying to understand what we're fighting about. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ 95% of the programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%.
