[cc-community] FYI: comment by Eric S Raymond on CC
Asheesh Laroia
asheesh at asheesh.org
Wed Feb 13 10:00:02 EST 2008
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Greg London wrote:
>> "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).
I thought that was why the Free Software movement/Foundation wouldn't.
Eric S. Raymond has always considered "open source" more wishy-washy on
these issues, whereas Bruce Perens hasn't (even though they co-founded the
Open Source Initiative).
> A non-commercial license isn't about community freedom, it's about the
> original author leveraging free samples in exchange for free
> advertising.
>
> (sigh)
You seem to have high expectations for Eric S. Raymond. (-;
-- Asheesh.
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