Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:19:02 +0400 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Funding GPL projects or funding the GPL? |
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Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > However, it doesn't work very well when the >community beats you to hell for not being GPLed. > If you made your source code available so that it could be customized then I would stop beating you for your license. As it is, any new features have to get written by you, and I have requested a trivial to author feature from you that I need and you haven't written despite your promising to do so before I made the switch to bitkeeper. I don't at all blame you for being busy, but if we had the source it would be 5 minutes for us to add the quite valuable to us feature.
Make your license charge for privacy but have the software come with source code, and the license is brilliant. Otherwise, it is a source of frustration, and yet another example of how software copyright is being abused and twisted away from its original intent so as to permit information to be hidden rather than published. In the long term, it is the accumulation and compounding of knowledge that matters, not limited time monopolization for 14 years (original length of copyrights), and secret source code frustrates that.
-- Hans
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