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> It's almost like there's no good representation in the open-source world for the solo developer or small team. IMHO, there is a simple solution to this - rel
by js8 6y ago
> It's almost like there's no good representation in the open-source world for the solo developer or small team.
IMHO, there is a simple solution to this - release the software under the GPL license. Then no corporation will want to touch it.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoOnly if it's proper GPL3. Google and Microsoft touch linux everywhere: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=49decddd39e5f6132ccd7d9fdc3d7c470b0061bb https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
- linuxftw 6y agoAGPL would be more apropos in this day and age of "SaaS all the things."
- amiga-workbench 6y agohttps://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/ https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/ They're absolutely allergic to it.
- Jeff_Brown 6y agoIf your project is sufficiently popular, that's safe; otherwise maybe not. As someone else mentioned, when a giant corp absorbs a free project, you can reasonably expect them to maintain it. If you GPL the project, that won't happen. But if it's a popular project, then if it's GPL it will attract more maintenance from people who can't free-ride on the corp's efforts. (Note that the relevant measure of "popular" is not number of users, but number of people enthusiastic enough to actually contribute.)