kerravon wrote:
You're apparently not my target market, as I consider your decision to judge software not on technical merit or restrictions imposed on your business, but political opinion, to be childish.
Judging PDOS and sibling works on technical merits against GPL software also results in a preference for GPL software. The same goes for most or all other pieces of copyrighted work.
It is also quite ironic for you to say this, as you tend to judge licenses based on whether
Code:
grep -i copyright license.txt
exits with zero or otherwise.
I seem to recall you applying this exact logic to ISC, MIT and similar permissive licenses. While I would not opt for them, they sit right in line with your stated mission goal, and have communities of thousands of developers willing to give up principles of Free software that you could share and integrate with, instead of choosing a path of hostility against everyone but a privately chosen arbitrary line in the sand, where relying on (copyrighted and broken) BIOS or UEFI implementations, or emulation layers is okay whereas integrating with actual Free software communities is not, because their COPYING/LICENSE file contains the word "copyright".
Personally, I'd trust someone who tells me "Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies." with not rug-pulling my rights to use their work far more than you or anyone who might get involved with your code, as I'd at least be given a well-formulated and well-known statement of rights.
On that note, I cannot trust your license opinions, seeing as you seem to fail to acknowledge
the problem with that:
Quote:
Dedicating works to the public domain is difficult if not impossible for those wanting to contribute their works for public use before applicable copyright or database protection terms expire. Few if any jurisdictions have a process for doing so easily and reliably. Laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction as to what rights are automatically granted and how and when they expire or may be voluntarily relinquished. More challenging yet, many legal systems effectively prohibit any attempt by these owners to surrender rights automatically conferred by law, particularly moral rights, even when the author wishing to do so is well informed and resolute about doing so and contributing their work to the public domain.