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I've noticed there is a sub-population within open source who believe there is an etiquette to be followed that goes above and beyond the strict license terms.

by patja 11y ago

I've noticed there is a sub-population within open source who believe there is an etiquette to be followed that goes above and beyond the strict license terms. Of course there is no legal obligation to behave according to the oft-unwritten polite rules of behavior around things like attribution and not just making a near carbon copy for personal gain or aggrandizement when these terms are not in the license, and so many ignore them, perhaps even literally being ignorant of these social norms they are violating to the irritation of the original author.

CountSessine 11y ago
Of course there is no legal obligation to behave according to the oft-unwritten polite rules of behavior around things like attribution No, there isn't. Which, by the norms and conventions of the gift economy that open source software defines, jerks like this should be named and shamed for this sort of parasitism. Which is what this blog article is doing. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.