Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:13:26 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Michael Dean" <mdean@sourceview.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can the following license be used for ported programs? Message-ID: <bef9a7920709231913m7348ea8dp5d842a4e3f801ec5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46F718BD.7090102@sourceview.com> References: <bef9a7920709231010r3f52b894v4c30856322291c74@mail.gmail.com> <46F6E1F1.401@sourceview.com> <bef9a7920709231502o44748c82u5eabc8e9d61294fc@mail.gmail.com> <46F6E3B9.5060404@sourceview.com> <bef9a7920709231512x2e48004dsb7bbb321de34327f@mail.gmail.com> <46F711AD.3030505@sourceview.com> <bef9a7920709231841o1d8cd28kb50460e0ee166998@mail.gmail.com> <46F718BD.7090102@sourceview.com>
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you more then welcome to join in on the conversation... right now due to the dns issue sited in the original posting we are doing it via a manual mailing list (cc everyone else) [I think that should be partially fixed by tomorrow afternoon].... given that if you send any mail to the SIW community it should be addressed to all of the following: aryeh.friedman@gmail.com henry.pijffers@gmail.com stephane@jahia.com marius@amado-alves.info So you don't sound too much like a newbie I recommend the following background articles and links: http://www.softdevelcoop.org/o.openMailingList.htm (Mailing list archives up to the start of Miai) http://www.softdevelcoop.org/ (precursor to Miai) http://www.sustainablesoftware.info/jahia/Jahia (Stephen's take on the software portion of sustainability) http://www.sustainablesoftware.info/jahia/page421.html (historical essay that got some of us interested in what became SIW [I came to it in a different route]) http://www.methodsandtools.com/PDF/mt200402.pdf (detailed theoretical examination of Jahia's business model) --Aryeh On 9/24/07, Michael Dean <mdean@sourceview.com> wrote: > > great, then why open the conversation up to plebs like me? > > Aryeh Friedman wrote: > On 9/24/07, Michael Dean <mdean@sourceview.com> wrote: > > > many people feel much differently, why not just a pure proprietary license > then, rather than proliferating Yet Another Silly License which is not > tempered by sound legal analysis. > > Not to be insulting but I don't think you read my 1st blog entry as I > suggested (at least the first paragraph... specifically where I say > both open and closed source are equally the wrong model). Now onto > your actual points: > > The license has received legal review by an IP attorney. > > Again not to be insulting but I think most FOSS people slept through > econ 101, especially the section on there is no such thing as a > limitless resource. Even though you might consider this to be a > conflict of interest; I have a family member who is a prof. of econ at > UC Santa Cruz and has reviewed the economic aspects of both my > specific work and the general concept of SIW (see second blog entry > for definition). His general conclusion is while the model is untried > on a large scale and there are some more minor things we can improve > on (subject of debate within the SIW community) that we fix many of > the economic flaws with both open and closed source models. He is > currently in the process of writing a book on the matter and said he > would have a full review after rewriting ch8 (which is on the economic > issues raised by both models) in a few weeks. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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