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It makes it impossible for most organizations to use, not for most people to use.
by the_pwner224 5y ago
It makes it impossible for most organizations to use, not for most people to use.
- JoshTriplett 5y agoIt also makes it impossible for Open Source projects to use and depend on. This isn't a companies-vs-people thing; people and projects who care about their users should not go "meh, whatever" about software licensing.
- pessimizer 5y agoDoes Crockford care about Open Source? People who aren't doing evil can use it. It's not compatible with FOSS. It's a linter, it doesn't require being incorporated into people's projects. Making it proprietary would be more limiting, making it Free would also be limiting (in a good way imo.) He chose to make it his way.
- JoshTriplett 5y agoAnd many people chose not to use it as a result, despite having no desire to do "evil". People can certainly license software however they like, and other people can complain about that and build replacements, as JSHint did. > It's a linter, it doesn't require being incorporated into people's projects. Many things do want to depend on tools that process source code, such as bundlers, IDEs, transpilers, and similar.