RE: [PHP] Ethics question...

Well, I can agree with that too.. but something you will always have to give them, something like support/update of the software, allow them to do something they wouldn't like to do without the license etc... It is a VERY HARD thing writing a RIGHT license... we (maybe except you, Rasmus) are just more likely not good enough to write a good license, the one which will totally satisfy a customer and will encourage him to purchase it. my point is: licenses aren't codes - if you are a programmer you'll have some hard time writing it well. Cheers, Maxim Maletsky. -----Original Message----- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@php.net] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:09 PM To: Maxim Maletsky Cc: Shane McBride; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Ethics question... > a customer like Microsoft, Morgan-Stanley, Amazon.com.. yes, but a new > start-up that thinks: "when we'll grow we'll buy something cooler" will > crack your soft down (or will ignore your license) ... I've seen it > happening so many times... So what? They'll do that anyway unless you spend a significant amount of energy coming up with weird protection schemes. And even then they are likely to hack it. Add a sane license, forget about the people who hack it, chances are these will turn into sales eventually in some way anyway. -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net