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I still cannot see a problem in this. If the backend stuff is [[GPL]] and the frontend (Delievery Engine) is under [[Consumerium Software License]] then there are ''theoretically'' no problems of skewed software. And besides keeping the majority of stuff forkable makes it more easy to manage operations without fierce flame wars. [[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 00:57, 15 Dec 2003 (EET) | I still cannot see a problem in this. If the backend stuff is [[GPL]] and the frontend (Delievery Engine) is under [[Consumerium Software License]] then there are ''theoretically'' no problems of skewed software. And besides keeping the majority of stuff forkable makes it more easy to manage operations without fierce flame wars. [[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 00:57, 15 Dec 2003 (EET) | ||
:Well this page is about general problems of these licenses for any project in a [[healthy signal infrastructure]]. Maybe it should be more of a pros and cons thing - a problem with a CSL that is not say a [[Green Software License]] that many groups use, is that it will not be as easy to integrate with those other parts. So there's at least an argument for seeking [[Consortium license]] wherever we can, if only to work closely with [[essential projects]] that for whatever reason aren't using the [[GFDL]] or [[free software]] models. | |||
:Avoiding flame wars by enabling [[bad copy problem]] is a poor tradeoff. I ''tend'' to agree that if the delivery engine is under a [[Consumerium Software License]] that the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] controls, then the most obvious [[worst cases]] go away, and many [[threats]] seem more manageable even if [[free software]] problems infest the rest. Problems are: | |||
::1. that license doesn't exist yet, and many people will argue "it isn't needed, just GPL everything" which is an ideological position that doesn't come from any analysis, just from a vague belief that "free is good, open is good" etc. So we need this page just to convince people we have a problem that the CSL would solve. | |||
::2. just because ''we'' think it's good enough, doesn't mean it is. Keeping our analysis transparent to let anyone see it and add to it, like this page and [[worst cases]] especially, makes it harder for us to be totally blind-sided | |||
::3. a lot of jerks just "fork for the sake of forking", leaving 3000 versions of Linux that the end user can't tell from each other. | |||