On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Mike.lifeguard mike.lifeguard@gmail.com wrote:
We could require that users freely license their code - then you would know at least that the four freedoms apply and redistributing it wouldn't be so hairy.
I don't think this is a good idea. Most of my tools are freely licensed and open-source, as you can see in the footer at http://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/stalktoy/, but there are a few tools I do not want to publish the source code for. Synchbot is a good example; it registers an account on every wiki in two minutes (faster with changes), which I wouldn't want in the hands of our crosswiki attack username vandals.
It's fine to recommend free licensing and open source, but we should have the option not to for such cases.