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He does talk in the interview about why he doesn't do that, and the reasons aren't completely unreasonable (basically he wants to avoid professionalising the de
by ximeng 11y ago
He does talk in the interview about why he doesn't do that, and the reasons aren't completely unreasonable (basically he wants to avoid professionalising the dev process)
- clarry 11y agoThat sounds unreasonable to me. To put a different license and dump the source somewhere, you don't need to change your personal process at all.
- VonGuard 11y agoYou absolutely do. Open sourcing code is not just throwing a tarball over the wall. It's comments, it's documentation, it's changelogs that go a lot deeper than "fewer children are spawned." When people are reading the code, they want to make changes. They want to help. Tarn has no interest in changing his job from one of programmer/designer to one of gatekeeper/manager. I can completely understand why he doesn't want to do this. It'd make a lot more work for him, and people would come to him with complaints, demands, questions about it.
- clarry 11y agoNo, you don't need to change anything about comments, documentation, changelogs, anything. You can totally just throw a tarball over the wall. No, you don't need to accept contributions. When it's your project, you do whatever you like, regardless of the license. Whether you occassionally upload a binary or a source snapshot.