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This is why it's important to license FOSS projects under the (A)GPL, rather than the MIT license. It makes it far less profitable for companies to steal your i
by jasonhansel 6y ago
This is why it's important to license FOSS projects under the (A)GPL, rather than the MIT license. It makes it far less profitable for companies to steal your ideas/code, and ensures that anything based on your work will put users first.
- bad_user 6y ago(A)GPL doesn't protect ideas. Patents do that.
- shp0ngle 6y agoThey didn’t copy the code, just the APIs and ideas. In another words, if ideas were copyrighted, GNU/Linux wouldn’t exist.
- chii 6y agoTheir lawyers will have a hard time justifying that none of the original source was used to create their new win-get project, given that the author of appget has met with the engineering team directly. So if it were GPL, microsoft would likely need to license their new winget project under GPL, which would be a win/win for open source.
- throw_m239339 6y ago> Their lawyers will have a hard time justifying that none of the original source was used to create their new win-get project, given that the author of appget has met with the engineering team directly. Exactly
- colejohnson66 6y agoWell, as the law stands now, due to Google v Oracle, APIs are copyrighted. Hopefully the Supreme Court will fix that in the coming months (they’ve agreed to hear the case), but, as of now, that’s the law.