Jimmie Houchin wrote:
You say it defends rights. It just removed my right to license my
software how I wish. The only way to preserve that option is to not use
GPL software.
Now, should I choose to not use GPL software. How has that benefited
anybody in the GPL ecosystem? Not at all.
We like to talk about the bad big corporation stealing our hard work and
our software and making millions of dollars. Yes big corp. prefers
MIT/BSD. They also prefer to release their own hard work and dollars as
MIT/BSD licensed software. It isn't as if it is all take on big
corporation's side. They prefer the permissive license both as author
and user.
MIT/BSD simply says you the user may do anything you want. Just don't
blame me (author) for anything. And give author(s) credit for what they
have created.
I would rather have people, businesses believe in open source software
and use and release open source software because they are believers and
not because some license forced them to do so. That is how MIT/BSD
software is. And in reality it is how all authors of open source
software are regardless of license. They do it because the believe in
it. It is wrong to think that MIT authors don't believe in the freedoms
of open source software. We do. We want the user to reciprocate because
they believe, not because we forced them. You can't force anybody. They
always have the choice of choosing something different, or writing it
themselves.
+1
Jimmie
Herby
