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Many skilled and talented programmers work on open source software for the explicit purpose of allowing it to be copied and extended in any fashion.
by chrisco255 4y ago
Many skilled and talented programmers work on open source software for the explicit purpose of allowing it to be copied and extended in any fashion.
- mejutoco 4y ago> in any fashion. Several open source licenses do not agree with this (they enforce restrictions on how it is to be shared).
- mtrower 4y agoThis is true, and many bitter wars are fought over ISS licensing. I’m not sure it derails his point - there’s an awful lot of BSD, MIT etc licensed code out there.
- Tepix 4y agoRight. That is their choice. But most of those artists didn't choose to make their art public domain.