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> To abuse the spirit of open source The main way I think about this and how I often see people act are that actions which undermine the long term success and
by davorak 3y ago
> To abuse the spirit of open source
The main way I think about this and how I often see people act are that actions which undermine the long term success and sustainability open source community is abusive. So you take a behavior and say if a non-trivial number of people emulated/copied this behavior will the open source community survive long term, if the answer is no, then the behavior is abusive.
Of course people disagree with what will lead to long term sustainability of open source projects and communities, though it does seems like a reasonable heuristic to the first degree of approximation.
- pessimizer 3y agoThen I'd say that the abusive behavior is to imply there are terms in the license that aren't actually there, and to use that implication to attract developers and customers to your project. If your open source has a soul, write it into the license. Note that after you do that, it will not be an open source license.
- davorak 3y agoI do not follow either of your statements. I do not know what you would use as an example for your first sentence. I do not know what you are trying to communicate with the last two sentences.