Can the following license be used for ported programs?

Aryeh Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Sun Sep 23 18:41:45 PDT 2007


On 9/24/07, Michael Dean <mdean at 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.


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