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Flying Steel:
--- Quote from: kOba on May 13, 2012, 09:51:31 pm ---I do not understand what it is (forgive me my English is to google)
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Basically what I meant was-- if you don't intend to make money off of a work of art you have done, then don't concern yourself with whether or not someone else might make money from it. Instead just think about what your goal is in creating and offering it the open source community and make sure that personal goal is met.
kurja:
--- Quote from: H-Hour on May 13, 2012, 10:07:49 pm ---My two cents: having commercially compatible licenses is an important part of the use-and-reuse philosophy of open source. We live -- and will live -- in a mixed ecology of commercial and free software. And the interaction between the two continues to benefit FLOSS development. If that means someone somewhere turns a profit on something I made, that's fine.
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how open source projects benefit from their content being used for profit by someone else?
Flying Steel:
They don't benefit from it. But now ask yourself the opposite--
How are open source projects harmed by their content being used for profit by someone else? They aren't harmed either.
Should we stop breathing because the carbon dioxide we exhale will most likely end up profiting some plant-life far away which we don't own? What if that plant-life happens to be someone else's wheat field and he makes a profit from it?
headdie:
--- Quote from: Flying Steel on May 14, 2012, 01:47:02 am ---Should we stop breathing because the carbon dioxide we exhale will most likely end up profiting some plant-life far away which we don't own? What if that plant-life happens to be someone else's wheat field and he makes a profit from it?
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Certainly an interesting point.
The difference here I think is the background, when I breath out I dont care what happens to that gas, it is just an automatic process that has to happen. On the other hand when I create an asset for an open source project with my own time and effort with the understanding that the results of the project are free to all, and some one profits from that project without consulting me then I would be annoyed to say the least.
kurja:
--- Quote from: Flying Steel on May 14, 2012, 01:47:02 am ---They don't benefit from it. But now ask yourself the opposite--
How are open source projects harmed by their content being used for profit by someone else? They aren't harmed either.
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True, but one has to wonder what this was supposed to mean
--- Quote ---commercial and free software. And the interaction between the two continues to benefit FLOSS development
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as making money by selling someone else's open source work is so obviously, well, wrong, and I don't see anyone else than the profit-maker benefiting from it.
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