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> Yes, open source contributors doesn't expect something back but they can only hope that others at least pay it forward. If they want to ensure others "pay it
by TheDong 6y ago
> Yes, open source contributors doesn't expect something back but they can only hope that others at least pay it forward.
If they want to ensure others "pay it forward" (also release their source code), they should be contributing to copyleft projects instead.
The AGPL would ensure users of elasticsearch, whether hosted by elastic or AWS, have access to the source code of the software they're using.
- worldsayshi 6y agoA restrictive licence limits the potential value that the code can bring to the world. To maximize the value you bring as an open source developer you can't expect returns (to the community), only hope for it.
- bigiain 6y ago> To maximize the value you ... ... have to let Bezos et al. exploit it? (And that's maybe not as bad a thing as it sounds on the surface. Linux, Apache, PHP, Ruby, HAProxy, Nginx, and probably hundreds of open source projects I can't even start to list don't seem to feel the need to come out swinging like Elastic/Mongo/Redis have. )
- marcosdumay 6y ago> If they want to ensure others "pay it forward" (also release their source code), they should be contributing to copyleft projects instead. But Amazon is releasing their source code. Even more of it than Elastic.