There seem to be some misunderstanding here, free software is not
"non-commercial". If someone wants to put restrictions of their ideas
on commercial competitors, that prevent the idea from being used in
free software as well. The rights associated with "free software" are
granted to commercial entities as well.
Thanks.
Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb(_at_)guppylake(_dot_)com> writes:
This strikes me as oversimplistic. What if a commercial enterprise
wanted to license its IPR in such a way that it put no constraints on
open source, but retained constraints on commercial competitors? I'm
not sure you can get around a technical mandate for some kind of
license and still retain those options. -- Nathaniel
On Oct 13, 2004, at 10:55 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Sam Hartman <hartmans(_at_)mit(_dot_)edu>:
I think it would be wonderful if the free software community could
come to a consensus about what their requirements are.
That's not hard. We need licensing conditions that don't require us
to either pay royalties or sign legal papers, and which don't inhibit
re-use of the code by restricting the area of application.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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