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[adam]

On 07/02/2012 02:13 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>>> Forking a project, adding a few lines and taking the original authors
>>> name off is not good. People have done this by renaming Audacity (or
>>> just hiding the name in screenshots) and selling it as a CD-R on eBay.
>>
>> isnt that ok? commercial use of free materials is part of the
>> ecosystem...we have to get used to it and, more importantly, we need it
>> if free culture is to survive
>
> In this case the people selling the CD-Rs were hiding attribution,
> adding no value, and sending none of the money to the upstream project,
> while disguising the fact that the software in question was Free
> Software and available as a very small download. It was probably quicker
> to download Audacity from Sourceforge than to go through the eBay checkout.


hiding attribution is not cool but...(continued below)

>
> Commercial use in general, and commercial use running counter to the
> interests of the free software/culture project and the people doing the
> work on it are two very different things.


i think we have to accept all commercial activity. its the end result of 
free culture. we cant avoid it or shun it, infact we need it. we should 
just get used to it.


adam

>
> I think of it as a feedback loop. If the people doing the commercial use
> are on balance taking resources away from the project, the feedback loop
> is broken. There are plenty of unethical people who will take
> good-natured and generous people for granted, if they can make a fast
> buck. We don't 'need' that ecosystem at all :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>
>

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