{"id":399,"date":"2009-07-20T13:20:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T03:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2009-07-27T22:25:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T12:25:53","slug":"license-choices-and-a-sense-of-entitlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"License choices and a sense of entitlement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rooreynolds\/243810133\/in\/photostream\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"Photo by Roo Reynolds (used under Creative Commons License)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo by Roo Reynolds (used under Creative Commons License)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/license-large.jpg\" width=\"474\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been enjoying reading some of the responses to Zed Shaw\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/zedshaw.com\/blog\/2009-07-13.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why I (A\/L)GPL<\/a> post. <\/p>\n<p>Leaving all the back-story aside, the decision he\u2019s reached for his future releases seems quite reasonable to me. If you respect the license and give back to the community, you can have it for free. If you don\u2019t, you can pay for it. Ultimately however, it doesn\u2019t matter whether I think it\u2019s reasonable. He\u2019s doing the creating, so he gets to make the call. <\/p>\n<p>Which license you use for a project is a decision that needs to be thought about in a very clinical, mature way. Does your license choice line up with your expectations of what you want in return? Assume all you\u2019ll get in return from the users of your project is the bare minimum required by the license. If that\u2019s it, will you be happy? If so, great, go forth and release. If not, be honest with yourself about what it is you <u>do<\/u> want in return and choose a license that articulates those wants. <\/p>\n<p>For people who use other people\u2019s work, either free or commercial, in your projects, it\u2019s ok to ask for something for free. After all, if you don\u2019t ask you don\u2019t get. It\u2019s also OK to tell someone you disagree with their choice of license or business model. However, It\u2019s not ok to feel entitled to something for free or to feel they have to listen to your opinion. If you want to make those kind of decisions for a project, then go create something yourself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been enjoying reading some of the responses to Zed Shaw\u2019s Why I (A\/L)GPL post. Leaving all the back-story aside, the decision he\u2019s reached for his future releases seems quite reasonable to me. If you respect the license and give back to the community, you can have it for free. If you don\u2019t, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}