From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail•ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] DPL is not only not enough, but brings unfounded confidence to Bitcoin users
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:01:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1481070.m2uoBWnWHP@strawberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD438HswfYG6MZ_4cWVNgCL8HwKWhMs+JvhVUFCnDu0+Hu-D-g@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday, 14 October 2016 04:51:01 CEST Daniel Robinson via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
> > Because if not, the DPL is still better than the status quo.
>
> Agreed. Also worth noting that it has a potential advantage over
> unilateral patent disarmament, analogous to the advantage of copyleft
> licenses over MIT/BSD: it provides an incentive (at least a theoretical
> one) for other companies to adopt it too.
This is a very important point and a huge step forward in my opinion.
The downside of MIT/BSD licenses is that companies can take and not give
back. It doesn't build a community and commonly-shared property. Copyleft
allows people to take and embrace, but if they extend they have to give
back. Which is fair, you build it on their stuff...
--
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-15 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-14 10:38 Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-10-14 10:57 ` Peter Todd
2016-10-14 11:51 ` Daniel Robinson
2016-10-14 12:31 ` Peter Todd
2016-10-15 10:01 ` Tom Zander [this message]
2016-10-14 18:10 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-10-14 19:01 ` Nick ODell
2016-10-14 21:07 ` Daniel Robinson
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