Day: December 20, 2002

Phillip sheds some light on my Creative Commons as software licensing question:

IMHO the GPL is “attribution + share alike”, and the BSD/MIT licenses are “attribution”. They’re just somewhat better understood for software. Any combination of “attribution” and “share alike” should be GPL-compatible.

Cool.  I was thinking that the creative commons licenses should be GPL comptible at least in theory, but I was curious about what other people thought.  More speculations are welcome, of course.

Sam Ruby has some insight this morning:

The key difference between by-sa and GPL is one of marketing genious.

Had Jon merely copyrighted his work, you could have copied it had you asked for and obtained Jon’s permission.  All Jon has done is let you know in advance under what conditions you are not even required to ask.

…When you skip the intermediaries.

OSNews:

CRM wrote in to tell us that the folks at Distrowatch have tried Slackware on for size. The review can be found in its entirety here. Conclusions are not surprising: impressive, stable distro, but if you like bells and whistles, stay away.

Slackware.  Lots of floppy disks.  I miss those days.