Nice to know something good came out after taking all the heat. In my
case I learn about licensing with the reasons behind and not "just take
it!"...
My sources of information, the main spec.st site, made my mistake about
dual license a valid misinterpretation and even the idea that there are
other non-viral licenses: LGPL, 3 clause BSD, public domain that can
integrated in a MIT licensed project, with the rationale behind [1],
seems a good thing to make explicit
[1] http://etoileos.com/dev/licensing/
Kind of down though, after seeing how a community leader can go after
other people who don't share his views/knowledge and is just trying to
contribute, understand and be part of the community. Today would be a
slow day for me in Smalltak... maybe is time to take a walk a leave it
for a time.
Cheers,
Offray
On 08/09/16 06:00, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:
I consider GNU AGPL v3 a fair license choice which protects somehow
authors. After some talks with friends today, I began to consider it
useless for a niche community like Smalltalk *and* solo projects. I
then read all your mails, many posts in other communities, and finally
asked for advices. Conclusion: The ideal license option for me was not
yet invented.
Now about parasite behavior and easy living for freeloaders.
- I doubt Smalltalkers are in position for doing anything valuable
against parasites. GPL scares a niche community. All of us having MIT
code published can be stealed and we have no legal options to defend
our work/authorship. That should be addressed one day.
- However, I would like one day to read people releasing software
under whatever license they want and not to be pointed them. That's a
matter of freedom. I feel we are far away from there.
- I hope we can talk about interesting Territorial features, what do
you need, what could be modeled better, etc. Licensing is boring, really.
I re-licensed Territorial to MIT for the nice Pharo people, for the
nice Smalltalkers, people who helped me here in mailing lists, or
sending supportive private messages, and for cool users with nice
intentions.
Hernán
PS: Updated User Manual: http://bit.ly/2c4RrCJ
