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People who have power over you are, by definition, already empowered. Whether or not you give them something for free isn't going to move the needle.
by jahewson 7y ago
People who have power over you are, by definition, already empowered. Whether or not you give them something for free isn't going to move the needle.
- Quekid5 7y ago"something" = "leverage". Disprove that. As a bonus point, leverage is exactly what you may be giving them by licensing with the BSD/MIT/... There's no guarantee that they'll gain leverage, but if they see and seize the opportunity then that's what they'll get. EDIT: The APL 2.0 is kind of interesting here because it doesn't really do that much over BSD/MIT/... except for the patent grant thing. The patent thing actually brings it much closer to 'acceptable' for me, personally, because a lot of instances of conglomerates exercising their power has been through software patents.
- grumdan 7y agoIt does cement their power over you even further though. An individual project may not make an appreciable difference, but in aggregate, if lots of people make similar choices, it may have an impact.
- wrsh07 7y agoEasy counter example: cockroach labs & Amazon Why did cockroach decide on their new business license?
- threwawasy1228 7y agoI don't think that is a fair counter example since it isn't actually straight GPL and provides a different type of leverage than GPL does, which is what we were discussing. The Cockroach Community License[0] was created specifically to fit their needs, and it differs from GPL in several ways. [0] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/cockroachdb-community-license/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/cockroachdb-community-license/
- wrsh07 7y agoThe parent I'm responding to is trying to suggest that giving entities more powerful than yourself (eg better funded) doesn't help them. That's obviously bs, and that's what I was responding to.