Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Posted Oct 15, 2015 2:38 UTC (Thu) by jra (subscriber, #55261)In reply to: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft by Cyberax
Parent article: Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
"There you go again".
This item isn't about GPLv3. No one mentioned GPLv3 in the comments until *you* brought it up.
What's that old saying ?
“A fanatic,” says Winston Churchill, “is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT GPLv3 ! EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR OPINION AND NO ONE HERE CARES.
Posted Oct 15, 2015 2:41 UTC (Thu)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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This implies GPLv3 - you can't convert Apache 2 into GPLv2.
> “A fanatic,” says Winston Churchill, “is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
Posted Oct 15, 2015 5:25 UTC (Thu)
by Karellen (subscriber, #67644)
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I know, right? Sheesh. It's like Greenpeace - they always keep going on about the environment. Why can't they ever mention the benefits of eco-destruction, or just talk about something else entirely for a change? And if only the ACLU would mention something other than "civil rights" every once in a while?
Why /are/ these _organisations_ that are specifically dedicated to a single cause, so dedicated to a single cause?
Posted Oct 15, 2015 6:43 UTC (Thu)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Posted Oct 22, 2015 8:14 UTC (Thu)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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Which is why I won't touch Greenpeace with a barge-pole. They seem to prefer sound-bites and PR coups to actual solid science and, you know, actually achieving something.
Unlike, for instance, the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). While ideologically opposed to hunting, they recognise that hunters have money, and more to the point, hunters DON'T WANT to drive their prey to extinction. So while they wouldn't do it from choice, they do work with hunting organisations in order to achieve habitat protection. A classic example is they bought a reserve (can't remember which one). On various occasions, a great fuss was made that shooting regularly took place on the reserve. But when they bought the land, the shooting rights were unavailable (or too expensive, or whatever). Faced with the choice of losing the land or permitting shooting, they bought the land with the intention of dealing with the shooting later. And they have.
And I get the impression a lot of people (Linus included) seem to have the same impression of the FSF, as I have of Greenpeace. It's a shame, RMS is a great prophet. But more and more he seems unable to grasp the bigger picture.
Cheers,
Posted Oct 18, 2015 17:19 UTC (Sun)
by flussence (guest, #85566)
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I'm not sure if you chose that example out of naivety or irony.
Posted Nov 5, 2015 17:21 UTC (Thu)
by nye (subscriber, #51576)
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Greenpeace have the blood of *millions* of innocents on their hands due to their fundamentalist opposition to life-saving technology, making them arguably the most villainous group of people in the world today, so I think they're a fairly weak example.
Posted Nov 5, 2015 18:16 UTC (Thu)
by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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(if the citation is some weird rant pro or contra GMOs, feel free to spare us)
Posted Oct 15, 2015 13:40 UTC (Thu)
by airman (subscriber, #7341)
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Posted Oct 15, 2015 17:46 UTC (Thu)
by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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Posted Oct 21, 2015 4:45 UTC (Wed)
by ayers (guest, #53541)
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Posted Oct 21, 2015 7:28 UTC (Wed)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
> All of you are enabled to change things. You can take an Apache-licensed project and go make a GPL version of it.
Like, you know, FSF?
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
They both sometimes throw a baby with bathwater and harm their cause as a result. So yes, they are good examples.
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Wol
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Ah, and I could also do without the shouting if it's not too inconvenient for you.
Have a nice day.
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft
Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft