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"End users" that may want to modify code are pretty much always developers themselves, by definition. By the time they are modifying source code, they are devel
by DangitBobby 4y ago
"End users" that may want to modify code are pretty much always developers themselves, by definition. By the time they are modifying source code, they are developing. So I'm not sure the distinction FOSS makes between end users and developers is actually meaningful in practice. Also I need it explained to me how an end user is more free to modify under a GPL license than MIT.
- gpderetta 4y agoThe end user might not get the code at all if under MIT license.
- DangitBobby 4y agoGood chance they won't get it under GPL either, since companies just won't use it.
- pabs3 4y agoLots of companies use GPL code and don't distribute it to users either, for example Vizio. Some of those also violate the BSD/MIT licenses. https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
- carapace 4y agoContext counts. > programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his [Bernie Greenberg] office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html