3 ms·
one of the key advantages of FOSS licenses is that we immediately know long term what the trade-offs are (except maybe the AGPL). and this means we can invest i
by nqzero 9y ago
one of the key advantages of FOSS licenses is that we immediately know long term what the trade-offs are (except maybe the AGPL). and this means we can invest in learning to use, improve and integrate the software without a lot of negotiating with the author. without the risk of the rug being pulled out from under us
in spite of the misleading name and the allusions to open source, this license scheme fails to capture that predictability
i've written a license that attempts to capture more of a balance:
https://github.com/db4j/pupl https://github.com/db4j/pupl