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Open source == no protection. You rely on the morals of your customers. At any time somebody bigger than you can take your free source, modify it, make it bette
by unnouinceput 6y ago
Open source == no protection. You rely on the morals of your customers. At any time somebody bigger than you can take your free source, modify it, make it better because they have already a base and sell it as closed proprietary software and you can't do anything about it.
- dwohnitmok 6y ago> sell it as closed proprietary software This is not true for all open source licenses. Copyleft licenses such as the GPL and its variants prevent this. Someone can distribute your software instead of you and thereby lock you out of any profits there, especially if they undercut your price (in the limit case they can distribute your paid software for free), but certain open source licenses prevent retroactive locking as proprietary software.
- galaxyLogic 6y ago> rely on the morals of your customers ... If they are just abiding by the license, would that be considered "immoral"?