If I read this right, Dietmar is expecting everyone to follow the rules. The rules are the rules and that's just the way it is. It's an admirable, if utopian viewpoint.
On the other hand, most everyone else understands that uploading source code, like leaving keys in the ignition with instructions on using your car, and expecting those instructions to be followed, is only going to lead to disappointment. That's reality. It's just the way people are.
Knowing that, accepting it, and being smart about what to expose to the public and what not to, are about all the owner of whatever property is being exposed to the public can do to avoid being disappointed.
Weird rules are an owner's privilege. Become an owener, become an anarchist or pursue an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership.
You called me naive, but truly it's naive to expect any instructions accompanying freely available source code to be adhered to by the general public.
I think Copyright infringement happened like five minutes after the invention of the first computer. The switch was flipped, and then somebody copied something they weren't supposed to. Seriously, my point is that Copyright infringement and the computer are so closely related that they pretty much go hand-in-hand. Whether anyone chooses to accept that or not doesn't matter. That's the reality of it.
Knowing that, and expecting the world to suddenly change because you want your intellectual property handled according to a set of instructions is just not having your feet grounded firmly in reality. I'm not saying it's right that it is that way. I'm just pointing out that it
is that way, and it will be that way for years to come.
@Ed
If you weren't confused before, I bet you're confused after listening to us! :lol:
