Picking a license

[Lie Ryan]

On 05/13/10 00:53, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> On May 12, 2:19 am, Lie Ryan <lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 05/12/10 06:50, Patrick Maupin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 11, 5:34 am, Paul Boddie <p... at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> On 10 Mai, 20:36, Patrick Maupin <pmau... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>  The fact is, I know the man would force me to pay for the chocolate, so in
>>>>> some cases that enters into the equation and keeps me from wanting the
>>>>> chocolate.
>>
>>>> If the man said, "please take the chocolate, but I want you to share
>>>> it with your friends", and you refused to do so because you couldn't
>>>> accept that condition, would it be right to say, "that man is forcing
>>>> me to share chocolate with my friends"?
>>
>>> But the thing is, he's *not* making me share the chocolate with any of
>>> my friends.  He's not even making me share my special peanut butter
>>> and chocolate.  What he's making me do is, if I give my peanut butter
>>> and chocolate to one of my friends, he's making me make *that* friend
>>> promise to share.  I try not to impose obligations like that on my
>>> friends, so obviously the "nice" man with the chocolate isn't my
>>> friend!
>>
>> The analogy breaks here; unlike chocolate, the value of software/source
>> code, if shared, doesn't decrease (in fact, many software increases its
>> value when shared liberally, e.g. p2p apps).
> 
> Absolutely true. Actually, the analogy was really pretty broken to
> start with.  It wasn't my analogy -- I was just trying to play
> along :-)

All analogy is broken, except if the analogy is the exact situation; but
then again, if the analogy is the exact situation, then it's not an
analogy :-)