[s1mp3-dev] About GPL was Fw: Re: [s1mp3] sourceforge project page

[Bluechip]

At 19:06 15/06/2006, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Normally, I'd completely agree with BC. Problem is, as far as I can see,
>as soon as we've got a nice firmware all wrapped up, Actions will go and
>take it. I don't want that; them not giving a donkeys arse about our
>troubles with no docs etc and in the end them profiting of it. It's not
>that I don't want any corporation profiting from this work, it's just that
>I don't want Actions profiting from it.

The you need some form of anti-capitalist censorship ...I suggest GPL.

BC

>If anyone else wants to use it, as
>I said, they can always come to us and we can agree to license it to them
>under some other license.
>
>Jeroen
>
>On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Legolas wrote:
>
> > From the old yahoo group mailing list.
> > --
> >  Legolas
> >
> > BC wrote Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:28 am:
> >
> >> Re: [s1mp3] sourceforge project page
> >>
> >> I have several personal issues with the GPL license. But only once I
> >> understood what it meant. I was forced to read the GPL, when working on (I
> >> think the phrase is) "statically linked plugins" for another project. I
> >> sent this one particular plugin out for beta test by a few helpful
> >> others -
> >> there was a bit fo a rave about it being cool and rather than send
> >> individual copies out to the many requestors I put it on my website ...One
> >> dilemma - as a beta, my source code "sucked arse" it was messy and
> >> uncommented etc. as this is one of the last things I do with my code -
> >> clean it up to be programer friendly. There was to be a two(ish) week
> >> delay between the beta plugin going up on my site and the "nice" source
> >> code being made available.
> >>
> >> At the point in time the authors of the main project (to which I was
> >> "linking") threatened to sue me if I did not put the source code on the
> >> site **NOW** I started making myself familiar with the terms of the GPL
> >> license.
> >>
> >> GPL is, as with any license, simply another form of censorship. In this
> >> case anti-capitalist censorship - it means that if someone thinks my code
> >> is great and they want to use it in a closed source project - they are not
> >> allowed to.
> >>
> >> Now you will have to excuse my methusulean stance, but I come from a time
> >> when "PD" [Public Domain] was the dominant term . When my code could be
> >> taken and used by anyone without any fear or reprisal no matter what they
> >> desired from it. If Boeing found some cool algorithms which they thought
> >> could fly a plane (and, yes, I have done a LOT of A.I. work in my time)
> >> then they could just take it and use it.
> >>
> >> GPL strips people of their rights. Think about this... You work for NASA -
> >> you're given two weeks to solve your particular part of the latest problem
> >> - three days to go and you are still smashing your head against the wall -
> >> your job hangs on this - the food in your kid's stomach - your mortgage -
> >> your car - and with 48 hours to go you find the solution, quite by chance,
> >> in some maze game on the net - the source code is GPL'd - two days later
> >> you are fired.
> >>
> >> The only come back I can see which holds any validity is "well, NASA
> >> wouldn't give a crap about GPL - they would just steal the code and keep
> >> their mouths firmly shut waving a banner labelled 'official secrets act'"
> >>
> >> Differetiate between YOUR LOSS and THEIR GAIN ...if you GPL your code all
> >> you do is make yourself a fat bunch of work and make sure nobody can
> >> benefit financially from the fruits of your hobby.
> >>
> >> My code is free (as in free) - if someone thinks I am so spectacularly
> >> awesome that they want to use my code - I really don't care if they
> >> procure
> >> money or not - if you think money will make you happy - go4it - I wish you
> >> every happiness.
> >>
> >> BC
> >
> >
> >
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