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No. I wrote "freeloaders who what to turn FOSS into unpaid labor". Simply using or modifying for internal use is OK. We cross the line into unpaid labor when
by goodpoint 4y ago
No. I wrote "freeloaders who what to turn FOSS into unpaid labor".
Simply using or modifying for internal use is OK.
We cross the line into unpaid labor when I release an application or a game, and somebody changes the name, maybe makes minor improvements, then sells it and takes all the money, takes all the credit, and even competes against my own software.
- pabs3 4y agoThat sounds like a description of what literally every Linux distro does. Take your code, potentially make a (minor) fork of it, sells access to it, sells support for it, maybe sells hosting for it (Amazon), takes all the money, maybe gives back patches or maybe not and competes with your own builds of the software. I think that what you want (no competition from forks or downstream redistributors) would not comply with the Open Source Definition (or DFSG) nor the Free Software Definition. https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html