a dissenting opinion: this is useful [LWN.net]

a dissenting opinion: this is useful

Posted Apr 14, 2011 15:22 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: a dissenting opinion: this is useful by zooko
Parent article: Project Harmony decloaks

There is a important difference between a entirely permissive licensed codebase and a copyleft codebase where a single entity has the right to sell proprietary licenses. In the former, everyone has the same rights but not in the latter case.

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a dissenting opinion: this is useful

Posted Apr 14, 2011 16:34 UTC (Thu) by zooko (guest, #2589) [Link]

> There is a important difference between a entirely permissive licensed codebase and a copyleft codebase where a single entity has the right to sell proprietary licenses. In the former, everyone has the same rights but not in the latter case.

Yes, of course, but wingo didn't indicate that *that* was his concern. I guess there are many separate concerns here and different people care about different ones. It makes it easy to argue past each other I bet.