emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Org-Mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:12:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egjtv81q.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mkp37hq.fsf@gmail.com>


On 2015-07-27, at 18:12, Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> And what if I explicitly want people to be able to use my code in
>> a proprietary software?
>
> Then you're out of luck. Just like thousands (millions) of programmers
> are out of luck when they want to examine the code of a closed source
> proprietary software.

Good point.  I like the conciseness of your one-sentence summary of the
situation:-).

> If I asked someone for Microsoft Word source code, because I want to
> understand why my macro doesn't work, they would laugh in my face.  And
> then bring up that situation as a joke for years. A credit to FSF
> people: no one is laughing at you. Myself included, I tried to explain
> the benefits of GPL, but if you don't want to listen that's fine.

I'm glad that nobody is laughing at me, though I don't like being
accused of being impolite/rude/inflammatory - even if justly - and
I even more dislike being accused of being irrespectful (and I consider
this accusation to be unjust - after all, I came here to ask, and I plan
to follow the rules, no matter how ridiculous they are).  Also, I do
listen to you - I just want to point out that, while GPL clearly has
benefits (and I do not deny that!), it also has drawbacks, and that
people are entitled not to like it.

On a tangentially related note, as I pointed out in another post, you
might want to make the license note on your blog compliant;-).

> --Oleh

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-27 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-27 12:10 How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter? Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 12:16 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-27 13:02   ` Rainer M Krug
2015-07-27 13:09     ` Greg Troxel
2015-07-27 13:13       ` Andreas Hilboll
2015-07-27 13:30         ` Rainer M Krug
2015-07-27 14:05       ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 14:03   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-28 12:33   ` Paul Rudin
2015-07-27 12:39 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2015-07-27 16:59   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 18:02     ` Nick Dokos
2015-07-27 18:12       ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 18:45     ` Daniele Nicolodi
2015-07-28  7:55     ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-29 14:54       ` Aaron Ecay
2015-07-30 10:08         ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-27 13:05 ` Greg Troxel
2015-07-27 14:32   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 13:58 ` Scott Randby
2015-07-27 16:32   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 15:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-27 16:01   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 16:12     ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-27 17:12       ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-07-27 17:13       ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-07-27 16:54     ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-27 17:04       ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-27 18:38         ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-28  8:07           ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-28  9:00             ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-28  9:00               ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-28 10:38                 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-28  9:20               ` Andreas Hilboll
2015-07-28  9:30                 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-28 10:14                   ` Andreas Hilboll
2015-07-28 10:29                     ` Oleh Krehel
2015-07-27 18:32 ` Richard Lawrence
2015-08-04 15:04 ` Phillip Lord

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87egjtv81q.fsf@mbork.pl \
    --to=mbork@mbork.pl \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).