[tor-project] The Tor Project Social Contract

Nathan Freitas nathan at freitas.net
Wed Aug 3 11:22:32 UTC 2016


On Wed, Aug 3, 2016, at 04:45 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
> Nathan wrote:
> > I agree corporate/commercial licensing is a great option for
> > sustainable revenue generation. Let's make sure this allows for
> > that. In the case of Moxie, his software is not free to developers
> > who was to incorporate it into non GPL software.
> 
> The Social Contract is probably not the place to debate (or record
> the result of debate about) the specific license used for Tor software.
> 
> Nathan seems to have an issue with GPL licensed software.  But his
> argument undercuts his point. 

I have no issue with it, and license as much of my own software under
GPL as possible. I agree it creates a great opportunity for licensing
revenue that Tor does not have, at least with the core tor daemon.

+n


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