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What I never understand is under open source license of any sort, do people generally expect credentials? Fame or money or both, do you think you should get at

What I never understand is under open source license of any sort, do people generally expect credentials? Fame or money or both, do you think you should get at least one? Just a question, no opinion on Mr Tanenbaum's letter per se.

jwilk 9y ago
Some do, some don't. The BSD licence that MINIX 3 uses actually requires giving credit: Copyright (c) 1987, 1997, 2006, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands All rights reserved. Redistribution and use of the MINIX 3 operating system in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: [...] Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. [...] Source: https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix...
- TheCoelacanth 9y ago
  Exactly, a lot of people think of the BSD license as not reserving any rights, but it actually does reserve a few rights, such as the preservation of the copyright notice. A license that actually reserves no rights would be something like CC0.
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  - drewbug 9y ago
    Or the WTFPL ;)