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The HN crowd tends to be a bit more money oriented than some of us older coders.
by ebbv 11y ago
The HN crowd tends to be a bit more money oriented than some of us older coders.
- skrause 11y agoSo you're saying that for example the FreeBSD people are money oriented because they prefer a more permissive license over the GPL?
- ForHackernews 11y agoThe people here aren't the FreeBSD team--they're wannabe startup founders who'd like to take BSD-licensed code and sell it.
- anon1385 11y agoPerhaps, but the GPL licensing of this code isn't a barrier to them doing that, since most of them will be running web services that can use GPL code freely without having to release the rest of their code. If it was AGPL then maybe you would have a point. The issue in this case is that image formats need widespread support to take off, and picking a license that is incompatible with 4/5 major browsers ensures that won't ever happen.
- nevir 11y agoAs a younger coder who has worked at the bigger firms that disallow use of GPL code in projects (Amazon, Google) - it is a huge disappointment to find a quality library that is GPL: There are plenty of projects at these companies that would be unreasonable to open source - and due to frequent reuse of code within a company, GPL is an unreasonable license due to its ripple effect. Contributing back to open source projects is the most enjoyable part of the process (Google for example, actively encourages this, and makes it incredibly easy). GPL projects are dramatically reducing their pool of potential contributors. I'd love to contribute to them, but I can't.
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- kitsunesoba 11y agoI can't speak for others, but for me it's not about money at all. I just want awesome technology like this to thrive and become the standard instead of falling into obscurity due to licensing complications.