Re: The impact of a module's license on the requiring Lua program

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:52, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What I mean is that being more open is generally better in the case of
>> software. Well, at least as long as you follow the GitHub principle:
>> share what is good for everyone, don't share what is good only for
>> your competitors.
>
> A reasonable statement; it would be better however if people would
> _start_ with reasonable statements rather than knee-jerk "come back to
> us when your license doesn't suck".  Like other spinal reflexes, this
> unthinking attitude does not really involve the brain and comes across
> as dismissive, after someone has gone to a lot of trouble to share
> code - and then doesn't get an evaluation or anything remotely
> technical, just nitpicking.

License issues are *not* nitpicking, no matter what your position about GPL is!

And, if someone shared code under license that does not allow some
people to use the code (or even see it, for some purists), he did not
share the code to those people. So these people rightly complain that
they were left out.

Alexander.