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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "Jonathan A. George" <jageorge@austin.rr.com>,
	Matthew Jacob <lydianconcepts@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "GPL weasels and the atheros stink"
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:05:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DE473D.6010805@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46DB1080.5060502@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jonathan A. George wrote:
>> ... But is it _ethical_ (as opposed to legal) to violate the expressed 
>> intent of the original author ...
> 
> The author expresses his intent primarily by choice of license text, and 
> it's very important to all of us that we follow the rules set forth by 
> the author in that license text.
> 

I have released software on more on one occasion where I have given a 
very liberal license (like MIT), and then put a "however, if you like 
this, X would be appreciated."  I wouldn't consider it unethical if 
someone didn't obey the optional request (it's optional for a reason), 
however, it does mean that I do genuinely appreciate someone doing X.

So there is a difference between what is legal and ethical, and what is 
the nice/friendly thing to do.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-05  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-02 17:46 Jonathan A. George
2007-09-02 18:31 ` Matthew Jacob
2007-09-02 19:05   ` Jonathan A. George
2007-09-02 19:35     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-05  6:05       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-09-02 18:46 ` Jeff Garzik

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