Modifying Open Source Licenses

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:43:23AM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> Thanks for the additional clarification.  I'm going to take Richard's
> advice and sit on it for a few days.  After calming down a bit I
> notice that the issue is probably about as old as mankind.  After all,
> how many innocuous inventions have been subverted throughout history?

So is gun powder good or bad?  Do you like fireworks?  How about bullets?
It becomes very hard to draw a line in the grey fog of reality.

Are nuclear technologies bad?  Could make bombs or you could be making
radioactive isotopes for medical use.

> On an interestingly related note, it appears that RMS posted an
> article (last night?) specifically about licensing JavaScript code.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
> 
> (One of the TiddlyWiki developers tipped off Ajaxian where I heard
> about it under the name "Free The JavaScript.")

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Len Sorensen
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