-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I read this and I just get more confused. One I feel like this is topic drift (but don't worry about that, I'm glad for a little drift here) and two... what about bitcoin which is.... MIT right? I don't mean to drift it further... but I feel like this gets to be a circular thing. M. Gogulski had an argument (not sure if on this list but maybe it was on Unsystem) sometime I think early last year in which he had some arguments I hadn't considered for different types of unlicensing approaches. Which again, I just hadn't considered before he had elaborated on it at length. In comparison the whole thing I found at the time a bit befuddling. This led me to ask if maybe there was just a way to release it into domain (public domain) without the whole licensing system and multitude of restrictions and competing licensing restrictions (including Unlicense) coming into play, depending on the project / projects being considered. (Again I think we are twirling in circles here) But part of this in the final analysis should be what software projects have succeeded and really circled the globe (and resisted various kinds of intrusions/attacks) regardless of what labels we have slapped on them? Well, they have been: Non-corporate, generally non-organizational also open source Consider some of the conclusions from both 30c3 and 31c3 I'm repeating the obvious now so I'll shut up grarpamp:
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Rob Myers <rob@robmyers.org> wrote:
Both restore rights that copyright otherwise restricts.
No. Copyright exists automatically in default state of "all rights reserved". Any "restoration" you may wish or take for yourself within that is an abuse of the author's rights as you have none. Any rights to the author's work you may have are granted to you as the author chooses. Subject to various limited notions... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_safety_valves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing
The GPL ensures that you are free to use the software even if you receive it from a third party. BSD doesn't do that.
Yes it does. The author can slap BSD or GPL on it, give it to Alice who gives it to Bob who gives it Carl who gives it to you which you then "use". There's no difference between the two there.
Therefore BSD "grants" less freedom than the GPL.
No it doesn't. This has already been explained. GPL people often confuse freedom vs force(d open source redistribution), and permissive vs restrictive. Don't get confused.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_copyright_tre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_copyright
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