> We must have differing definitions of freedom, because I regard the GPL as a severe curtailing of options and equate it with being forced to adopt a narrow, ideological worldview. If anything, this leads to fewer freedoms on use by directly creating more obligations for the user, and if my code is to be of utility for anyone, freedom of use is paramount.
Please, if you extend my work, let me know what you change, so that I can grow as a developer, aswell as giving the benefits of your work back to my userbase. Obviously you are free to maintain your project on your own and use another licensing for different modules.
In fact I believe that these licensing models have strenghten the unix community, but this is a highly personal assumption.
Nonetheless, you are always free to choose your own licensing for your project. Related GPL work, unchanged though, just needs to be ackowledged, right? So you dont have to license your code at all and just throw it at your users - The benefits of possible improvements via GPL unused.
As a user I highly appreciate the GPL, because it promises (not forcing anyone, free licensing, right?) me to inspect the source code shipped with a binary (if any).
To support the minority (original author) against the majority (everyone else) there are implications to them, but desribing it as a narrow ideological worldview forced upon the userbase sounds unreasonably harsh
Please, if you extend my work, let me know what you change, so that I can grow as a developer, aswell as giving the benefits of your work back to my userbase. Obviously you are free to maintain your project on your own and use another licensing for different modules. In fact I believe that these licensing models have strenghten the unix community, but this is a highly personal assumption.
Nonetheless, you are always free to choose your own licensing for your project. Related GPL work, unchanged though, just needs to be ackowledged, right? So you dont have to license your code at all and just throw it at your users - The benefits of possible improvements via GPL unused.
As a user I highly appreciate the GPL, because it promises (not forcing anyone, free licensing, right?) me to inspect the source code shipped with a binary (if any).
To support the minority (original author) against the majority (everyone else) there are implications to them, but desribing it as a narrow ideological worldview forced upon the userbase sounds unreasonably harsh