"Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman_at_gmail.com> writes: > One thing that FOSS (BSD or GPL) has historical had issues doing > cleanly is seperating free software from free beer. The first being > a very important goal and the second a unfair side effect of thinking > that open source by definition means free use of the products. Speak for yourself. > Yes the source should be avaible to everyone but as far I can tell > that does not automatically and should not translate into not having > some responibility to the community that created the project in the > first place.... my approach (along with 3 other small software > vendors) is to have a requirement to contribute back to the community > in some form (in work or help support those doing the work), namely it > is free software but not free beer. Excellent idea, if your goal is to kill the project. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Thu Jan 10 2008 - 12:46:00 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:25 UTC