Aaron Wolf

@ericholscher While I understand the motivation, that license would require a huge amount of complex bureaucracy, accountability, tracking of things, would not distribute funds to where they are _needed_ most...

@ericholscher CC NC is non-open, non-free. Here's a run-down (especially see the links too) of why NC is a terrible, broken license that divides and confuses everything. http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC

@ericholscher these aren't arbitrary definitions I happen to prefer. The OSI and FSF are _the_ respected institutions in software, and basically the _vast_ majority of everyone in this community respects...

You asked for criticism, so here it is, just meant respectfully: > proprietary software has the following desireable properties… People must pay to use it ("teeth") That's not a pro,...

That's comparable to the BY "attribution" part of the Creative Commons suite. While the burden of excessively long attributions is a concern, there's legitimacy to this direction too.

@tomchristie Thanks for the thoughts. Snowdrift.coop is not strictly about money. (For some thoughts on that see https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/psychology ). We are a volunteer-built project ourselves, and we're working to make...

@DanielKehoe The only thing your experience just said is: **Funding of documentation work leads to better documentation**. There's zero indication that specifically making the documentation proprietary and selling licenses is...

@DanielKehoe free/libre/open documentation has the same importance in many respects as free/libre/open software. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html and "selling" documentation / tutorials is similar to selling proprietary software plugins on top of...

I am _not_ a programmer, and I _do_ contribute to documentation, both core and especially tutorials. I will _only_ contribute if the tutorials are themselves free/libre/open, and my experience is...

"public software" and "public technology" are okay but they do have a different sort of focus in that private use of free/libre/open software is respected, people don't and shouldn't have...