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No, it's not proprietary. End users are not restricted from modifying it and sharing their changes, so long as it is not for a commercial purpose. Therefore, i
by gavinhoward 3y ago
No, it's not proprietary.
End users are not restricted from modifying it and sharing their changes, so long as it is not for a commercial purpose. Therefore, it is not a monopoly to share and modify and not proprietary.
And the fact that you and others won't is exactly why xz happened and why we might lose FOSS completely.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> And the fact that you and others won't is exactly why xz happened and why we might lose FOSS completely. As opposed to your approach, which... is also not FOSS. But this is a fun thread to pull: You wish to argue that it's necessary to force payment for commercial use of code. Fine; I disagree but that can be coherent. Are you doing that? Your project is commercial. Are you paying the authors of your compilers? Are you paying the authors of the open source code I see copied into your source tree? Or is it just your code that people have to pay for in order to avert the next xz?
- gavinhoward 3y agoI have a list of software that I was going to throw money at, yes. Starting with direct dependencies. Am I doing it now? No, because I can't afford to. Because people want a free lunch from my software.