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No legal action but fired for contributing to open source
- doetoe 4y agoWouldn't it be possible to design an open source license that obliges bugs to be reported when used commercially? Maybe hard to enforce in practice, but it would protect about this kind of situations.
- eesmith 4y agoI know it wouldn't be free software. From "What is Free Software?" at https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#redistribute https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#redistribute : > You should also have the freedom to make modifications and use them privately in your own work or play, without even mentioning that they exist. If you do publish your changes, you should not be required to notify anyone in particular, or in any particular way. As written it wouldn't be open source either, because "when used commercially" is contrary to the "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" criterion at https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd .
- mytailorisrich 4y agoThat's a red herring, IMHO. The issue here is that when your boss tells you not to publish company material publicly and you knowingly disobey you will likely get fired and, frankly, rightly so.