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My man, that's not new at all: https://books.google.com/books?id=yy8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA31&dq=us+government+public+domain+software&pg=PA31&hl=en#v=onepage&q=us%20go
by krainboltgreene 8y ago
My man, that's not new at all: https://books.google.com/books?id=yy8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA31&dq=us+government+public+domain+software&pg=PA31&hl=en#v=onepage&q=us%20government%20public%20domain%20software&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=yy8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA31&dq=u...
Read, especially, the part about people selling free software to the government and the fact that early open source engineers got donations or sponsorships (second page).
You're lacking perspective here.
- simonh 8y agoThat was all still a side effect though. If such activities had not been compatible with open source, or the OGL in particular, it wouldn't have made any difference to the licenses or the reasons they were written the way they were.