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While I can understand where he is coming from, his stuff is itself largely built on the free licensed software of others. In the end, this seems to me like pu
by hackbinary 9y ago
While I can understand where he is coming from, his stuff is itself largely built on the free licensed software of others.
In the end, this seems to me like pulling up the ladder after himself, and ultimately quite selfish.
- arekkas 9y agoHow is making a living from your work selfish?
- shadowmint 9y agoIt depends, is that work based on the free work of others? Taking advantage of the community and not contributing back for others to benefit (as you have, for free) seems selfish to me. Maybe if he proportionately (based on LOC or something) donated any income to his upstream dependencies? ...but I suspect that wouldn’t leave much.
- Tempest1981 9y agoI saw it as him encouraging the community to join him, on behalf of all starving developers who are giving big businesses a free ride.
- erikb 9y agoPlease read a comment before you respond. The whole comment only exists to say that it seems like the author of ungit is not making a living on his own work alone, but also on the work of all the OTHER contributors, who contributed assuming this would be a free and open community project.
- bonzini 9y agoOther contributors were using a very permissive license, that allows sublicensing. They were okay with a proprietary software company embedding their code into a proprietary product and selling it, they should be okay with this as well.