From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "Jonathan A. George" <jageorge@austin.rr.com>,
Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "GPL weasels and the atheros stink"
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:05:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DE473D.6010805@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46DB1080.5060502@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jonathan A. George wrote:
>> ... But is it _ethical_ (as opposed to legal) to violate the expressed
>> intent of the original author ...
>
> The author expresses his intent primarily by choice of license text, and
> it's very important to all of us that we follow the rules set forth by
> the author in that license text.
>
I have released software on more on one occasion where I have given a
very liberal license (like MIT), and then put a "however, if you like
this, X would be appreciated." I wouldn't consider it unethical if
someone didn't obey the optional request (it's optional for a reason),
however, it does mean that I do genuinely appreciate someone doing X.
So there is a difference between what is legal and ethical, and what is
the nice/friendly thing to do.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-02 17:46 "GPL weasels and the atheros stink" Jonathan A. George
2007-09-02 18:31 ` Matthew Jacob
2007-09-02 19:05 ` Jonathan A. George
2007-09-02 19:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-05 6:05 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-09-02 18:46 ` Jeff Garzik
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