Re: OpenGo: A Modest Proposal

[Dan Stromberg <strombrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Miller wrote:
> 
> Stuart Cracraft wrote:
> > Such distributions typically sell for 40 dollars or less, and they
> > include several CDs with source code for many programs.  Most of these
> > companies would not be willing to pay a royalty for including OpenGo,
> > but even if they did, the amount would be tiny.  So why not give them
> > permission to do freely, and make OpenGo free software?
> 
> Once again demonstrating why so many people dislike Stallman ;) There's
> nothing at all unreasonable about not wanting other to profit from your
> free work.

I'd prefer to see OpenGo LGPL'd if that is palatable to the author.  I
wouldn't even consider trying to tell people they cannot hoarde their
own code (and note well: Stallman hasn't either), but I'm not likely to
give my time to a code-hoarding project, either.  I am somewhat likely
to give my time to free software projects tho, perhaps particularly so
in the case of a go-related project.

The prize money creates a difficult situation for a free go project. 
People understandably want a chunk of that.  But I personally am quite
willing to forgo that to have a really good go engine that runs on
unix/linux, and possibly other operating systems.

Greg, you don't seem to like the idea of a free computer-go project. 
Hopefully I'm just being paranoid.