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> To clarify you're saying that you are ok with someone selling your software? Yes. I contribute to and create software with licences that permit it. In a wor
by esotericn 8y ago
> To clarify you're saying that you are ok with someone selling your software?
Yes. I contribute to and create software with licences that permit it.
In a world with copyright I prefer GPL-type licenses, in a world without copyright everything would be MIT-like.
A legal requirement to attribute might be nice but I don't really care. I think that the legal system should deal with matters of importance, not social politeness.
> Or any company could make a closed source distribution of linux?
Sure. They wouldn't be able to prevent anyone from copying it.
Ultimately I can't really see a viable business model for it that doesn't already exist - e.g. Android is already essentially closed source, partly due to a bunch of binary blobs and partly due to all of the infrastructure built up around the platform.
- olliej 8y agoWithout copyright an mit license would not mean anything - the existence of copyright is the only thing that makes software “property” that you can own. In a post-copyright world there would not be anything for you to license. If you want to apply a license to something there has to be something to license.
- esotericn 8y agoYes. It's unclear to me what point you're making here. In a world without copyright all software would be usable in the same way MIT software is now, except there'd be no attribution requirement. I specifically mentioned that in my post. Everything would be public domain.