Shlomi Fish wrote:
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
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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.
Hey! That was me! I recognise my hand-writing.
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.
Ah, that would explain why my hat keeps falling down onto my nose.
It was a rational decision that makes perfect economic sense (or is that
an oxymoron). If I may reformulate my position, it would be more "I have
expended a certain effort to understand licenses, but they are nearly
completely opaque to me, since they are written for a legal audience. I
therefore choose to defer to the judgment of others who have spent
considerable effort on this issue, thereby freeing me to devote my
attention to other matters".
Rather than choose to spend my insufficient spare time learning more
about law, I choose to spend it writing the occasional module that is
released onto CPAN under the same terms as Perl itself. Thanks to the
efforts of others, I can stand on their shoulders, knowing that they
have thought about and taken care of licensing issues for me.
I thank you for alerting me to the MIT/X11 license. I now know it
exists. That doesn't mean I'm going to start hunting down information
about it, but if I come across a Great Computer Language Licensing
Shoot-out, I will pay more attention to it than I might have otherwise.
And my small mind believes that this is about as much as you can hope
for from most people.
David
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hope still, a little resistance always maybe stubborn tiny lights vs.
clustering darkness forever ok?
