I don't think that is really accurate. I think it is closer to:
- Ford makes car, licenses under Ford license.
- 3rd parties make add on products for the Ford automobile, like an updated radio, and say that it is licensed under the same license as the original car.
In retrospect you are probably correct, or at least make a valid point, and it might have made the problem itself even clearer if I hypothetically slapped a license specifically naming the "Ford Focus by Ford" on something non-automotive, like Kelloggs Corn Flakes or a random Xbox video game.
However, that would violate the sanctity of the "automobile analogy", so for better or worse I stay within the automobile mfgr community. A sacrifice of technical excellence for style.
True, and I am not trying to say the extension authors are correctly using the license. I just thought that the OP's analogy would be more fitting if someone like ruby decided to use the PHP license.
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I don't think that is really accurate. I think it is closer to:
- Ford makes car, licenses under Ford license.
- 3rd parties make add on products for the Ford automobile, like an updated radio, and say that it is licensed under the same license as the original car.
In retrospect you are probably correct, or at least make a valid point, and it might have made the problem itself even clearer if I hypothetically slapped a license specifically naming the "Ford Focus by Ford" on something non-automotive, like Kelloggs Corn Flakes or a random Xbox video game.
However, that would violate the sanctity of the "automobile analogy", so for better or worse I stay within the automobile mfgr community. A sacrifice of technical excellence for style.
It's not just a Ford license, it's a Ford Focus license. It's specific to the car, that's why the addon maker shouldn't use it for its radio.
True, and I am not trying to say the extension authors are correctly using the license. I just thought that the OP's analogy would be more fitting if someone like ruby decided to use the PHP license.