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Yeah I still can't believe how scummy sourceforge is. I wonder how new oss projects can protect themselves against this type of behavior. Anyone know if any os
by baconner 11y ago
Yeah I still can't believe how scummy sourceforge is. I wonder how new oss projects can protect themselves against this type of behavior. Anyone know if any oss licenses include a restriction against this kind of repackaging or any kind of malicious use clause?
- vsl 11y agoThat would be contradiction of terms. Anything with such restrictions is, by definition (look it up!), not Open Source.
- baconner 11y agoSure if you want to be pedantic about it... In reality though there's a reason there are many different OSS licenses - many devs want options around attribution and yes, around use in limited ways. A please don't use this for abject evil clause may not meet the no true open source dictionary definition, but pragmatically speaking it's not necessarily a terrible idea.