The intent of the GPL license is pretty clear: if you "use" the code, you should open source your own code.
I agree that the GPL is pretty clear, but I read it slightly differently: if you use the code, you should GPL your own code.
According to opensource.org any of GPL, LGPL, BSD license, MIT license, etc. qualify your software as open source, but the GPL requires that derivative works "be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License [the GPL]."
And while I'm on a rant, don't check what resolution I'm running at, then resize my browser. Maybe I don't want to run my browser maximized.
...and if I can add a bit to this rant:
Stop assuming that only Netscape and IE can handle 128-bit encryption (ahem, ticketmaster, ahem, hmm...). If you want to force high bit-level encryption, go ahead, it's possible, I won't complain. But do not force me to pick a particular browser because you're unenlightened enough to be aware that there are other options.
Also, since many of our donations come from outside Canada, we still could not really generate taxable benefits to you. (And I must ask, why are people so cheap, that they only give donations when it provides a partial reduction in their taxes, rather than a real donation? I actually find that pretty fake.)
From a different point of view (for Canadians, at least), you can look at the tax break for "charitable donations" as a way of directing government money to the organizations you would like supported. From my point of view, a $100 chariable donation is really only an ~$80 donation from me, plus ~$20 of the government's money that I want directed to organizations I feel are important.
That's not to say that (non|not-for)-profit is the way to go for OpenBSD, but it may convert a few more anti-charitable donations people to support organizations they feel are important. I only support to those organizations that I feel are important (whether they get me a tax deduction or not), since you don't actually get more out of the tax deduction than you put into the donation.
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And since you've paid for assorted classified military research via your taxes, should you also have access to it?
Actually, according to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 23, "Everyone has the right to work...and to protection against unemployment."
This is further developed in Part III of the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Andrew
"This is your captain speaking -- the network and the plane are going down. Thank you, that is all."
...Andrew
I agree that the GPL is pretty clear, but I read it slightly differently: if you use the code, you should GPL your own code.
According to opensource.org any of GPL, LGPL, BSD license, MIT license, etc. qualify your software as open source, but the GPL requires that derivative works "be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License [the GPL]."
...Andrew
...and if I can add a bit to this rant:
Stop assuming that only Netscape and IE can handle 128-bit encryption (ahem, ticketmaster, ahem, hmm...). If you want to force high bit-level encryption, go ahead, it's possible, I won't complain. But do not force me to pick a particular browser because you're unenlightened enough to be aware that there are other options.
...andrew
From a different point of view (for Canadians, at least), you can look at the tax break for "charitable donations" as a way of directing government money to the organizations you would like supported. From my point of view, a $100 chariable donation is really only an ~$80 donation from me, plus ~$20 of the government's money that I want directed to organizations I feel are important.
That's not to say that (non|not-for)-profit is the way to go for OpenBSD, but it may convert a few more anti-charitable donations people to support organizations they feel are important. I only support to those organizations that I feel are important (whether they get me a tax deduction or not), since you don't actually get more out of the tax deduction than you put into the donation.
andrew