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Maybe an easy solution is to do the thing everybody seems to discourage: add a clause to your preferred OSS license, stating that usage of the code is subject t
by j1elo 5y ago
Maybe an easy solution is to do the thing everybody seems to discourage: add a clause to your preferred OSS license, stating that usage of the code is subject to sending a mandatory thank-you email.
That change alone might be enough to break the fragile conditions that allow the license to be considered Open Source... but who cares, the mental health and happiness of OSS devs affected by the difficulties mentioned in here is more important than the technicalities of what could happen by a small clause addition.
- pizza234 5y agoThat's Postcardware!¹ :) I remember using one, but I not exactly which one; it's not in the Wikipedia list. ¹=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcardware#Postcardware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcardware#Postcardware
- pizza234 5y agoFound: it was (not anymore) Exact Audio Copy¹. ¹=https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/eacdoc.pdf https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/...