[cc-community] FYI: comment by Eric S Raymond on CC
Greg London
email at greglondon.com
Wed Feb 13 09:13:14 EST 2008
> "Raymond: That's why the OSD doesn't depend on making any such
> distinction -- it's too easy to end up with either exploitable
> loopholes for non-cooperating commercial entities or nasty
> legal risks for nonprofits."
Good grief, no. That is NOT why the open source movement
doesn't make a distinction between commercial and non-commercial.
The open source movement doesn't make such a distinction
because such a distinction isn't "Free as in Speech" (Libre).
A non-commercial license isn't about community freedom,
it's about the original author leveraging free samples
in exchange for free advertising.
(sigh)
Greg London
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