“Free” in Free Software

Zarrelli il giovedì, 22 Ottobre, 2009

Still, there’s a qualitative difference between letting people download your own work from your own site, and watching other people try to profit from it. But it is precisely this difference that strikes at the heart of the Free Software/Free Culture ethos. Part of choosing a Free license for your own work is accepting that people may use it in ways you disapprove of. There are no “field of use” restrictions, and there are no “commercial use” restrictions either. In fact, those are two of the fundamental tenets of the “Free” in Free Software. If “others profiting from my work” is something you seek to avoid, then Free Software is not for you. Opt for a Creative Commons “Non-Commercial” license, or a “personal use only” freeware license, or a traditional End User License Agreement. Free Software doesn’t have “end users.” That’s kind of the point.

Mark Pilgrim | Via Frieda

Bookmarks for ottobre 21st from 11:54 to 14:24

Zarrelli il mercoledì, 21 Ottobre, 2009

These are my links for ottobre 21st from 11:54 to 14:24:

  • iPhone guida essenziale: jailbreak e Cydia –
  • SchemaSpy – SchemaSpy is a Java-based tool (requires Java 5 or higher) that analyzes the metadata of a schema in a database and generates a visual representation of it in a browser-displayable format. It lets you click through the hierarchy of database tables via child and parent table relationships as represented by both HTML links and entity-relationship diagrams. It's also designed to help resolve the obtuse errors that a database sometimes gives related to failures due to constraints.
  • iSkin revo2 – The revolution returns –