{"id":194,"date":"2001-06-02T03:41:20","date_gmt":"2001-06-02T08:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=194"},"modified":"2001-06-02T03:41:20","modified_gmt":"2001-06-02T08:41:20","slug":"blogging-as-open-source-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/06\/02\/blogging-as-open-source-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"blogging as open-source opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started blogging a while ago, I open-sourced my opinions.  <a href=\"http:\/\/brentashley.manilasites.com\/2001\/05\/29\">Recently<\/a> I checked in my new License module.  Feedback from the opinion community has revealed some design process problems and adjustments  are underway.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"eeeeee\">Request ID<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"eeeeee\">Summary<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"eeeeee\">Submitted By<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"eeeeee\">Assigned To<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"dababa\">0001<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"dababa\">\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;The essence of your argument is: &#8216;there are open-source licences out<br \/>\nthere that can cause legal troubles if you want to incorporate<br \/>\nopen-source products into your commercial products and it&#8217;s bad because<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have the time to sort through this mess &#8216;. Which reminds me of<br \/>\nthe quote &#8216;if you think education is costly, try ignorance&#8217;.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i>\n  <\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"dababa\">Krzysztof Kowalczyk<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"dababa\">Brent Ashley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"dababa\">0002<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"dababa\">\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;The GPL *can* be onerous for someone looking to build a commercial<br \/>\nproduct built on top of open source parts. This is why software that is<br \/>\nmeant to be linked with other software is often released under the LGPL or<br \/>\nanother similar, less restrictive license. When looking to use a programming<br \/>\ntool, even a commercial one, you need to be aware of the licensing terms.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i>\n  <\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"dababa\">Kevin Dangoor<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"dababa\">Brent Ashley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Development effort is being undertaken to understand the available licenses before incorporating them into my opinion-space.  Release notes will be forthcoming when the new nightly opinion build is available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started blogging a while ago, I open-sourced my opinions. Recently I checked in my new License module. Feedback from the opinion community has revealed some design process problems and adjustments are underway. Request ID Summary Submitted By Assigned To 0001 &#8220;The essence of your argument is: &#8216;there are open-source licences out there that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}