> <rant>While I think the goals of the FSF in general and the various > and sundry versions of the GPL in particular are in many senses noble,
<minirant>To the contrary, the general theme in GPLv3 seems to be "[EMAIL PROTECTED] you, Microsoft and Tivo" regardless of any political backlash. About as noble as a vegan setting fire to a McDonald's trash can, if you ask me.</minirant> > for the few things I create myself, I use either the BSD or the MIT > license. I do not plan to *ever* release anything under the GPL 3. My Feel free to contribute BSD / MIT licensed code to SAGE. > own personal opinion is that most "open source" licenses are junk, > with the GPL being one of the worst. I think it's high time someone > came up with an open source license that says something like this: > > "This software is copyright 2007 M. Edward Borasky. Here is the > source. You can do anything you want with it, but if you hurt someone > with it, it's your fault and not mine. If you make any money with it, > it's your money and not mine. If you do something with it that makes > you famous, it's your fame and not mine. And I can't prevent you from > compiling it and distributing the binaries without distributing the > source, so you can do that too." </rant> > That reads very much like the Creative Commons license, but with a bit more attitude than one wants to see in a legal document. Also, feel free to contribute Creative Commons licenced works. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
