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no; it's free software.no; it's free software.Posted Jul 29, 2004 8:35 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)In reply to: no; it's free software. by angdraug Parent article: OLS: An introduction to Conary I think you're forgetting some of the variants of BSD-licensing, some of which is GPL compatible, (in the sense that you can take code under that license, and legally incorporate it as part of a GPL project) it's hard to see how exactly that is harming free software. I agree with you that being "different" in itself is a huge minus for a license, even when the terms by themselves are acceptable, there's always the issues of user confusion and incompatibilities between different licenses.
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no; it's free software. Posted Jul 29, 2004 10:32 UTC (Thu) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link] Please, check the link to the licensing discussion. I've put it in my post for a reason. BTW, I forgot to add fragmentation (as opposed to diversity) to the list of harms license incompatibility brings.
on overlooked links Posted Jul 30, 2004 21:28 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] Please, check the link to the licensing discussion. I've put it in my post for a reason.It would be good if that reason were evident from the post itself. In this case, you just hyperlinked the wrong text. The text X/MIT, GPL, and LGPL does not say "licensing discussion." It suggests a link or links to descriptions of three licenses. In this case, the text There are only 3 free software licenses would have been better text to hyperlink, and "as discussed here" would be even better. I don't know about you, but I virtually never click on every hyperlink in a document. I have to have some clue it's something I want to read.
on overlooked links Posted Aug 3, 2004 14:56 UTC (Tue) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link] You're right, my links could have been more obvious. I don't know about you, but I virtually never click on every hyperlink in a document. I have to have some clue it's something I want to read. When I'm interested in the subject, I usually dig deep enough to understand the point. When I'm not interested, I don't bother to read comments at all.
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