15 Mar
2023
15 Mar
'23
11:46 p.m.
On Mar 14, 2023, at 10:57 PM, Jonathan Chapman via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
You're talking about GPL or equivalent there -- for which the FSF has at times been
the enforcer. BSD style licenses require next to nothing of people copying (in
particular, they don't require releasing the derived work).
Personally I'm partial to BSD style licenses, though some of my open source work was
originally licensed under GPL. (I may change that at some point if I want to bother.)
That means I'm accepting the possibility that someone could copy what I did and sell
it as a closed product. Fine, so be it (that doesn't close what I did, of course).
paul
If you posted your design as Open Source, someone
else producing it isn't a knockoff, it's the system working as intended.
What is it when the design is open source, but they're not complying with the terms
of the license? That's what really bugs me, the "cost" of producing your own
from one of our designs is attribution and releasing your design under the same or a
compatible license, but apparently that's too much to ask.
Thanks,
Jonathan