From: Chad Perrin Date: 2007-04-01T02:08:09+09:00 Subject: Re: New presentation on Ruby On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:49:26PM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote: > On 3/31/07, Chad Perrin wrote: > > >I wasn't referring to writing your own license. The attribution/share- > >alike license is a standard CC license, as indicated at the URL I > >provided. > > Please read upwards more carefully. > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/246093 I'll just take it as a given that I'd forgotten about that bit, then. I don't really feel like verifying the entire chain of discussion -- but you have definitely pointed out the fact that you mentioned by-sa already. Mea culpa. > > >> Bad idea for community friendly projects. I don't want to learn your > >> license if there is a standard license I can live with, that other > >> people will be likely to understand, too. > > > >Good for you. > > No need to be rude. Funny -- "Good for you." was my way of saying "No need to be rude." > > >1. I tend to dual-license whenever anyone really wants it. > > Dual licensing is an acceptable way to provide both your terms and a > more standard set of terms, but it's not ideal. It means if I want to > contribute back to you, I still need to understand your home grown > license, which, at least in my case, means you'd be less likely to see > contributions from me. So sorry. If I don't like the license you'd rather use, it's not the license I'm going to use. That's pretty much tautological. > > >2. I choose the license I do specifically because I often don't care to > >"live with" other extant licenses. It wasn't a capricious decision. It > >was a decision born of frustration. In any case, the license I created > >was designed with simplicity in mind -- and if you can get along with > >Creative Common license term legal text (byzantine and stilted phrasing) > >then you'll have no problem with what I use. > > Except that I don't want yet another license to remember. What, exactly, is this supposed to mean to my lack of satisfaction with certain other licenses? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] unix virus: If you're using a unixlike OS, please forward this to 20 others and erase your system partition.