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[News] How Licensing in Free Software Affects Community Activity

  • Subject: [News] How Licensing in Free Software Affects Community Activity
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:19:12 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Open Source Licensing and Community

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| I agree, license and copyright are factors in 
| creating and fostering communities but I 
| donât think itâs the most important set of 
| factors. License and community, while related 
| are very much separate issues. Open source 
| tends to fetish license and thus itâs over-
| emphasized in conversations where it at best 
| a contributing factor.
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http://blogs.rivetlogic.com/rdanner/2010/01/16/open-source-licensing-and-community/


Recent:

Is Richard Stallman Mellowing?

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| RMS being pragmatic, and accepting that not
| every company can be as idealistic as he is?
| I think I'll go and lie down for a while...
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2726


On Selling Exceptions

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| Thus I return again to my point that the
| vocal anti-Free Software critics are either
| <strong>ignorant</strong> or
| <strong>malicious</strong>. The FSF is
| quite good at laying out its philosophy in
| great detail on its website. You don&#8217;t
| have to sign an NDA or anything.
|
| Â The sadly necessary disclaimer:  I&#8217;m
| not suggesting there is <strong>no</strong>
| valid criticism out there, just that people
| who play the &#8220;zealot&#8221; card,
| ridicule RMS or the FSF for
| &#8220;hypocrisy&#8221;, or enage in other
| such fact and logic-free fallacies are to be
| dismissed with scorn.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/01/on-selling-exceptions/
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