Hi Hernan, Thanks for your balanced response. Licensing discussion can be boring but also crucial, hence the sometimes religious views on it. Like a lot of things, from a distance it seems easy - but the devil is in the details. Consider anyway that "Territorial" may otherwise have been a single blip in your first [ANN] post, but its now had more exposure. I hope you don't mind I follow up with one more post that has been sitting almost complete in Drafts folder a few days, after researching some interesting points. cheers -ben On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:
I consider GNU AGPL v3 a fair license choice which protects somehow authors. After some talks with friends today, I began to consider it useless for a niche community like Smalltalk *and* solo projects. I then read all your mails, many posts in other communities, and finally asked for advices. Conclusion: The ideal license option for me was not yet invented.
Now about parasite behavior and easy living for freeloaders.
- I doubt Smalltalkers are in position for doing anything valuable against parasites. GPL scares a niche community. All of us having MIT code published can be stealed and we have no legal options to defend our work/authorship. That should be addressed one day.
- However, I would like one day to read people releasing software under whatever license they want and not to be pointed them. That's a matter of freedom. I feel we are far away from there.
- I hope we can talk about interesting Territorial features, what do you need, what could be modeled better, etc. Licensing is boring, really.
I re-licensed Territorial to MIT for the nice Pharo people, for the nice Smalltalkers, people who helped me here in mailing lists, or sending supportive private messages, and for cool users with nice intentions.
Hernán
PS: Updated User Manual: http://bit.ly/2c4RrCJ