[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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