Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Code Museum

[zerothis baud]

Ok, so now you know proprietary code irritates us :) I hope I and others have something more helpful to say than accusing, 'EVIL!!!'. 1st, I would suggested you do everything you can to convince the owners of the code to release it under a Free Software license. This is in everyone's best interests, including museums. But, and I'm urging my FSFers here, cooperation in ventures with less than ideal outcomes can be better than leaving proprietary interests to their own way. Saint IGNUcius himself notes helpfulness of cooperation with OSI in certain areas.

Short of releasing code under GPL, there's Public Domain. Also, and this seems applicable here, there is partial release (not compilable) under non-proprietary license. I can't recall any statements by FSF members saying that fully proprietary code is better that non-proprietary code snippets. Section 7 of GPL v3 allows partial non_GNU code. At the very least, anytime a company can be convinced to show their code and see for themselves that the universe fails to implode as a result, it is a step in the right direction. But never a place to allow standing still.

Now for immediately practical advice, contact the Museum of Modern Art for help. They share a great deal of affinity in the matter of source code; having negotiated a number of agreements for various degrees of access, including public domain, in their efforts to create exhibits displaying software.

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