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Exactly. That was the problem that he saw. The problem he should have noticed was that the Sun was selling the code he wrote for hundreds of thousands of doll
by jasonkester 5y ago
Exactly. That was the problem that he saw.
The problem he should have noticed was that the Sun was selling the code he wrote for hundreds of thousands of dollars and not passing any of that on to him.
Step one shouldn't have been to worry about putting his header comment back in place and getting them the latest version of his code to sell to their customers. It should have been negotiating a redistribution license for his code if they wanted to continue selling it.
- rwmj 5y agoNo, the problem was the licensing change and removal of attribution. I would strongly suggest reading what Brendan says in the article. On this topic, I work for Red Hat where we made $3.4 billion in revenues in the last published year (before being acquired), making exclusively open source software which you can download yourself for no cost.
- ricardobeat 5y agoIf you want to sell your code, just use a commercial license. He released his code as OSS.