Re: How to make a non-GPL Org-mode exporter?

[Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com>]

Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> --Oleh

Amen. History over the last 500 years is littered with defunct social
organizations based on rights of person (claims that members can't be
excluded from the use or enjoyment of some social product, like the
GPL).  Over and over, the introduction into them of property rights
(claims that individuals can exclude members from the use or enjoyment
of some social product), often against violent protest, eventually
destroyed both the social organizations and the rights of person they
tried to perpetuate.

All the best,
Tom

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Thomas S. Dye
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