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I don't get what any of this has to do with FLOSS. Seems just American Capitalism as usual?
by Tharre 10y ago
I don't get what any of this has to do with FLOSS. Seems just American Capitalism as usual?
- falcolas 10y agoReading between the lines here, so keep that in mind. Author wrote something popular (libevent) in a permissive license. A company took libevent and ran with it, refusing to hire the original author. Author is now in a bad place. Sadly, that's one of the risks of releasing code under permissive licenses: it effectively no longer belongs to you. You may think that you're OK with that (like the author originally did), but human nature is likely to curb stomp you when you do lose that control.