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1. x1101 Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Fontana

   @fontana does this imply that I can charge 100 human souls per copy of my software? /cc @bkuhn #troll

   Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 20:45:27 UTC from heybuddy at City of Bath, Maine, United States
   • Simon Phipps

     IBM's solution to the high download bandwidth OOo might demand from Apache? Charge $1/download: http://bit.ly/jYkF88

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 19:06:41 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Apache Software Foundation , The GNU Lesser General Public License , Simon Phipps

     @webmink, I'm not sure #Weir's suggesting that precisely, but he does imply !LGPL wouldn't permit selling software but !Apache license would

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 19:15:09 UTC
   • Marjolein Katsma Simon Phipps

     @webmink now that's what I call smart!

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 19:19:19 UTC
   • Simon Phipps Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Read on in the thread and you'll see "For example, ASF could take bids and award a contracts to providers". Really.

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 19:22:23 UTC
   • Simon Phipps Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn As I understand it, (L)GPL explicitly permits charging for downloads.

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 19:23:16 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Apache OpenOffice , Apache Software Foundation , LibreOffice , Simon Phipps

     @webmink, & #TDF could do the same for !LibreOffice, right? Someone suggesting a stupid idea isn't the same as doing it. !Apache !OpenOffice

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 19:23:40 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn The GNU Lesser General Public License , Simon Phipps

     @webmink, indeed, !LGPL does permit that & hence that was my only annoyance w/ email you linked to: it suggested subtly that it didn't.

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 19:24:21 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn All Things Problematic in this World

     Permissive licensing is !problematic b/c developers who spend 99.99% of their time writing proprietary sw can still be key community members

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 19:27:23 UTC
   • Marjolein Katsma Simon Phipps

     @webmink And I assume using torrents to share the load has not occurred to them? :p

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 19:37:31 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Paul Visscher

     @x1101, I actually bought someone's soul on #ebay once, back before the would delist such auctions. @paulv can confirm this story is true.

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 21:37:58 UTC
   • Ryan Rix Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Did you relicense it under a Free license when you secured ownership of it?

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 21:41:52 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Ryan Rix

     @rrix, seller provided me w/ a jar that he said contained his soul (jar was in ebay photo). I lost track of jar in my 2011 move to Cambridge

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 21:43:45 UTC
   • laurelrusswurm Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Hmm... and you seemed like such a nice guy :o

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 21:44:05 UTC
   • Ryan Rix Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Uh oh, you lost his soul? :(

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 21:46:36 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Ryan Rix

     @rrix, I was never really clear on container rules. I did open the jar & wondered if it'd release the soul or not. Jar wasn't airtight,FWIW.

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 21:47:57 UTC
   • Paul Visscher Bradley M. Kuhn

     @x1101 I confirm that @bkuhn bought someone's soul on ebay.

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 21:48:53 UTC
   • x1101 Bradley M. Kuhn , Paul Visscher

     @paulv was it yours? /cc @bkuhn

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 21:51:10 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Ryan Kleeberger

     @x1101, no, I bought @ryanklee's soul on #Ebay in the late 1990s. (I didn't realize he had an identi.ca account until now).

     Tuesday, 07-Jun-11 21:57:14 UTC