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Oh my sweet summer child, if you think some strings in a file called LICENSE.txt in your repository is going to change how your software is used in practice, I

Oh my sweet summer child, if you think some strings in a file called LICENSE.txt in your repository is going to change how your software is used in practice, I have some bad news for you :) This is something you will learn as you gain more experience in the industry. 8 years ago I put a small C library for an extremely niche product on Github, for my own archival. No license and no intent for it to be used by anyone other than myself. To my surprise, I found out a few years ago it's used in quite a few projects--and in at least one case, used in automotive software you've probably used before ;) Do I cry and complain that I didn't get credit or a paycheck? No. This is the true spirit of free and open source software. Sharing code with the world for the collective improvement of software everywhere. Open source is not pursuing frivolous lawsuits as MinIO is doing here.

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squarefoot 4y ago
You fail to understand how copyleft works. The whole point of licenses such as GPL for example isn't to allow the user to do anything with the code. Doing so would allow ruthless businesses to immediately take advantage of that uncontrolled freedom because all patches, forks and derivative works would become closed in no time. The point of such licenses is rather to give more freedom to the majority of users by preventing others from restricting how software would be distributed. > This is the true spirit of free and open source software. Sharing code with the world for the collective improvement of software everywhere. Did whoever took your code share their bug fixes and updates with the community, so that the original code could be improved? If not, that would actually be against the true spirit of free and open source software.
maxloh 4y ago
Maybe you can sue them for copyright violation?
sleepybrett 4y ago
Just because someone is using your work without compensation or attribution does not mean that everyone should settle for that. in the true spirit of open source you should sue every last one of them and then hand the money you win off to open source projects.

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squarefoot 4y ago

You fail to understand how copyleft works. The whole point of licenses such as GPL for example isn't to allow the user to do anything with the code. Doing so would allow ruthless businesses to immediately take advantage of that uncontrolled freedom because all patches, forks and derivative works would become closed in no time. The point of such licenses is rather to give more freedom to the majority of users by preventing others from restricting how software would be distributed. > This is the true spirit of free and open source software. Sharing code with the world for the collective improvement of software everywhere. Did whoever took your code share their bug fixes and updates with the community, so that the original code could be improved? If not, that would actually be against the true spirit of free and open source software.

maxloh 4y ago

Maybe you can sue them for copyright violation?

sleepybrett 4y ago

Just because someone is using your work without compensation or attribution does not mean that everyone should settle for that. in the true spirit of open source you should sue every last one of them and then hand the money you win off to open source projects.