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Voice.ai Stole Open-Source Code, Banned Developer Who Informed Them About This
- iLoveOncall 4y ago[flagged]
- Hamuko 4y ago>Open-source licenses are killing open-source How? If I put my code on GitHub and I don't put an open source license on it, it's not open source, it's proprietary.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago[flagged]
- croes 4y agoAnd my point is, if you take from a public repository yours is public too. If you take, you give.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago[flagged]
- croes 4y agoTaking without giving that's the real way to kill open source.
- creatable 4y agoHave you seen the Ms-PL? It appears to be deliberately GPL incompatible while also having a similar list of conditions as the MIT license. I think it should be the default license for public repositories.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago[flagged]
- creatable 4y agoSection D is what makes it specifically GPL incompatible. The problem with not having ANY terms is that people can make derivatives of your software under new conditions, due to how copyright law works. You need conditions to impose the lack of conditions.
- shkkmo 4y agoYou're arguing for increasing developer freedom by removing their ability to issue the license of their choice? There are licenses that provide no restrictions and licenses like GPL that do. Developers should be free to offer whatever licenses they want on their code. Just because you like a particular kind of license, doesn't mean you should be able to make everyone who publishes a public repository use that license.
- LelouBil 4y agoI saw someone refer to that as "The GPL is freedom for users, not developers"
- iLoveOncall 4y ago[flagged]
- Alterlife 4y agoI feel like you're trivializing a complex issue. Developers have the right to say how they want their code to be used in the same way that authors have the right to say how their books can be used. The code in a public repository doesn't have to be "free" for developers any more than publically downloadable piece of software has to be "free" for end-users. For example, Microsoft offers a freely downloadable windows iso which people are not allowed to use use without a license.
- patrickmcnamara 4y agoDevelopers are users of libraries.
- Nullabillity 4y agoEnd users' rights.
- gsich 4y agoOr they could have respected the license of the code they used.
- dang 4y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Even if you're right, it's not what this site is for and destroys what it is for. And you can always make your substantive points without it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- boomboomsubban 4y agoPrevious discussions on the topic; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34681636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34681636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850571
- staunton 4y agoI wonder, it shouldn't be too hard to make a bot that automatically links to all previous discussions on each topic that's submitted...
- r3trohack3r 4y agoBuild it and Show HN
- dang 4y agoIt's not clear how to decide which threads to bundle together. Checking identical URLs is too narrow (e.g. the three threads mentioned have different URLs) and how to match by content isn't so easy.
- _hl_ 4y agoWith modern NLP models being extremely good, can't you bundle together all sites whose content embeddings are very close? Presumably there's an acceptable threshold somewhere that achieves a good tradeoff of false positives vs negatives?