The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) License

https://github.com/landondyer/kasm/blob/master/LICENSE

by robzyb • 13 years ago

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Yaa101• 13 years ago

What a pitiful small child behavior.

sjwright4• 13 years ago

That might be a valid (albeit ironically immature) response, except that the license is self-evidently satirical.

leokun2• 13 years ago

It is not self-evident that it is satirical. It seems malicious enough to me.

siegecraft• 13 years ago

That's the thing about satire, it's not always self-evident (to everyone).

a621• 13 years ago

To be honest, RMS himself has demonstrated behaviors similar to that of a small child at times.

foobarqux• 13 years ago

Are any projects under this license?

leokun2• 13 years ago

I hope not. This is terrible.

Alterlife• 13 years ago

The license linked to is located in repository for an assembler... so, clearly there is atleast one, and perhaps only one.

itafroma• 13 years ago

Here's the announcement blog post for the containing project:

http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=2106

The license author goes into the reason for the license and his thoughts on RMS in a comment on that blog post:

It’s not about hating free software. I’m a believer in that; I released my first game for free in 1982. Note that the github thing I put up is essentially totally free (something I would have been restricted from doing, by my employer, up to a year ago).
I have a personal dislike for RMS and I think that his philosophy of economy is at best naïve and dangerously unworkable. 25 years ago he was exhorting me to quit my job in protest to support some of his politics and he wasn’t pleasant about it. Thus, ABRMS.
If RMS really wants a miserable little 6502 assembler I can always amend the license. I’m not unreasonable. But he has to ask. :-)

lolwutf2• 13 years ago

Crazy? Probably yes.

But we all owe RMS because he serves as the radical counterbalance to closed source interests.

Maybe he's a little extreme, but he does well with advocating for that end of the FOSS spectrum.

We need a RMS, whether we like him or collectively agree with his opinions.

sjwright4• 13 years ago

And this license, which I still contend is self-evidently satirical, does nothing to hinder RMS from his views. If anything, it helps maintains RMS' mantle within the software licensing zeitgeist. After all, we're talking about it now.

joshguthrie• 13 years ago

_Richard Stallman? Richard Stallman! Why's he running dad?

_Because we have to hate him.

_He didn't do anything wrong.

_Because he's the hero Open Source Software deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hate him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. RMS.

orik• 13 years ago

I'm not a fan of this license. I'm going to avoid software with it.

steveklabnik2• 13 years ago

Note that this license is not Free or OSS, as neither definitions allow these kinds of restrictions.

aroman• 13 years ago

There are other uses of the word "Free" outside of the GNUniverse. If he wants to call this "free software", he's just as entitled to do so as RMS was when he redefined the term.

steveklabnik2• 13 years ago

Sure, but using Free (especially with the capital) is misleading, since the term already has quite a bit of precedent.

vezzy-fnord• 13 years ago

For the most part I support the views of RMS, but I'm not a particular fan of the copyleft model in all cases. I prefer using a BSD license, instead.

mariusz331• 13 years ago

This is bullying

flebron• 13 years ago

It's clearly Stallman-shaming.

elric1v• 13 years ago

How in the world is it bullying? I personally find it hilarious but I could see calling it mean, or immature, or silly. But bullying?

mikesmullin3• 13 years ago

this guy is a dumbass troll. don't give any more attention to his shitty code

hahsure• 13 years ago

He worked at Atari during the 80s. He's debugged programs using a print readout of CPU registers. He has done more work then you. He has worked with the FBI at one point. He knows his code, otherwise Valve wouldn't have hired him.

Jealous much? (;

kabdib• 13 years ago

As the author of the license:

- Yes, it's satire

- No, I'm not going to amend it

Reactions are mixed, from "this is hilarious" to "this is awful and childish." Which is pretty much what I intended. More people seem to find it funny than not.

I'm happy with dissent.

The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) License

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