:: Re: [DNG] Which license for UMENU2?
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Autor: KatolaZ
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To: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] Which license for UMENU2?
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:55:25AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:26:55 +0200
> Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 09:32:30AM -0500, Jim Murphy wrote:
>
> > > The scripts I write I use GPLv2 only. "I" can change it later if I
> > > need to.
> >
> > This works only if you never, ever, accept any code contributions from
> > others. And that's something I wouldn't recommend for a menu system.
>
> This is one of the main reasons I'm considering going non-copyleft.
> Without copyleft, any necessary licensing changes can be made (by me
> and by others) without getting a sign-off from every single person who
> ever inserted a line of code.
>


Yes, but with non-copyleft permissive licences nothing stops anybody
(either a contributor or a user or a company) from taking your work,
closing it, and redistributing it as proprietary software...

Copyleft is precisely a hack around the (awful) copyright system meant
to avoid that free software can be easily cannibalised.

Anyway, I have no intention to start a license flame, so it's better
to stop here :) You asked for comments, some provided their views, now
it's up to you to choose the license you like the best.

HND

KatolaZ

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