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

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:22, Dimitris Papavasiliou <dpapavas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
> So if someone shares code but not under a particular person's terms, in a
> way that is most suited for his or her purposes or others who might be in a
> similar position or of a similar attitude then he is effectively not sharing
> and the other person has a right to complain.  I only hope there are no
> people on this list who feel that effective and true sharing requires me to
> transfer copyrights to them because otherwise the code would be of no use
> for their purposes.

Oh, if you're afraid of that, then you're definitely should beef-up
your anti-complaint system.

People are complaining all the time, you can't stop it. But it is up to
you how to react to that :-) (Hint: for example, ignoring complainers
is a valid course of action.)

Alexander.