[mythtv-users] A new theme on the way...

[Chris Ribe]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Chris Ribe <chrisribe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Disallowing derivative works would be a pretty ass-backwards way of
> > encouraging people to build upon your work.
> >
>
> But an excellent way of encouraging them to learn on their own.


No, it's a terrible way of encouraging them to learn on their own, which is
what I was getting at earlier.

I am aware that there is a long history of popular non-GPL themes, but a
license that "disallows copying or derivative works" is unlike any Creative
Commons license I am aware of.

That said, I'm not trying to persuade you to pick a particular license for
your unreleased theme.  I might even pony up for your (awesome looking)
proprietary theme and the (not so special looking) font if I the font in
question wasn't so...blah.  My only point is that releasing low cost high
quality proprietary software is just about the worst way imaginable to
encourage people to produce their own competing software.

Seriously, if Microsoft claimed that the extended free public beta of
Windows 7 was intended to encourage Linux development, would you believe
them?


-- 
Chris Ribe
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