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I guess the lesson is to never open source your code? Or maybe to not trust "open source" and demand GPL?
by zeroCalories 3y ago
I guess the lesson is to never open source your code? Or maybe to not trust "open source" and demand GPL?
- sausagefeet 3y agoOr maybe make the paid portion of your product (TFC/TFE) good enough that people want to use it?
- erik_seaberg 3y agoThe lesson is not to sign a copyright assignment unless you’re comfortable with the maintainers potentially doing this with your work later.
- rbanffy 3y agoGPL would prevent others from modifying their work and turning it into a competing product. AGPL would have prevented others from modifying their work and turning it into a competing service. BSD and other "liberal" licenses are great if you want to make adoption easy, but makes you vulnerable to Amazonification.
- darkarmani 3y agoHashicorp wouldn't have a successful product if they hadn't open sourced their code. Now that they are entrenched, they want to change rules (and whine about it) because it makes them more money.