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I'm curious about this take. If I'm reading the article correctly it appears if you did not have plans to turn the software into a managed service this has no p
by Hermitian909 7y ago
I'm curious about this take. If I'm reading the article correctly it appears if you did not have plans to turn the software into a managed service this has no practical impact on you. Personally, for every open source project I've contributed to if this license has been in place rather than an open source one no one would have been impacted at a practical level (including those doing it professionally).
Aside from purely ideological concerns, what about these changes do you think will kill communities?
- paxys 7y agoI think it's a combination of ideological and practical (and in some sense they aren't all that different). If they changed the license once, they can do it again. As a for-profit company they are obligated to their investors and shareholders, and at some point it is inevitable that they will find ways to start charging those who want to self-host as well. The second part of this is that a large number of open source contributions come from employees at large software companies while on company time, and they aren't going to be allowed to do so any longer if the company isn't happy with the licensing terms of the project.