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My advice is for the OP to make his build system GPLv3 licensed and sue anyone who willfully violates that license. Open source still has lots of life left in
by Subsentient 5y ago
My advice is for the OP to make his build system GPLv3 licensed and sue anyone who willfully violates that license.
Open source still has lots of life left in it, but copyleft licenses are now increasing in importance, and the days of letting it slide when a company violates your license are now gone.
To decide on what license you want, ask yourself, do you want this to improve software as a whole, or do you want this to improve FOSS? Does the image of proprietary software benefiting from your work soothe or anger you? Nowadays, it's becoming increasingly important to choose the latter. If you don't care what happens, you can license it as MIT or something. There are still valid cases for that.
- bbarn 5y ago> My advice is for the OP to make his build system GPLv3 licensed and sue anyone who willfully violates that license. Except that filing a lawsuit costs money, and if by nature your product is free, where are you getting the money for said lawsuit, and what damages are you suing over? You might be able to get a cease and desist order for copyright, but then what?