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Writing software sucks. I release code with a permissive license because I want to make it suck a bit less for those who come after me. My only goal is to relie
by chowells 5y ago
Writing software sucks. I release code with a permissive license because I want to make it suck a bit less for those who come after me. My only goal is to relieve developer pain by providing reliable chunks of code.
Maybe I'd feel differently if I made an entire service instead of small focused libraries. But that's an entirely different world.
- parafactual 5y agoThat makes sense. I think it would suck less if less software overall were closed-source, which GPL seems to encourage in the long term. But one person can't do much, so it at least depends on what one thinks of that.