[sldev] ESC exempt from open source and GPL licensing?

[Taran Rampersad]

Tateru Nino wrote:

  

> And technically you _are_ being compensated. But not in money.
>   
Honestly, that sounds a bit too much like corporate lines I used to hear
- including when I got promoted at the cost of $10,000 USD a year.

But I was being compensated! heh.
> But seriously, you shouldn't be doing open source coding of any sort if you're not getting what you want out of it. For most people, it's the sharing of the workload that makes for a better piece of software for everyone.
>   
I'd be hard pressed to do a census that disagrees with that. Or agrees
with it.
> It makes me wonder how the people who wrote the BSD-licensed source code that is used in the Windows distribution feel. Actually - I know - I spoke to a couple of them and they didn't mind.
>
> "If I minded, I would have contributed to a different project under a different set of licenses."
>   
And batting 'open source' around when its really 'shared source' is kind
of like saying, "you can own the land" or... "you can make real money".

Certainly at some point, given all the manure, a flower shall arise?


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