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How do they make your life harder compared to projects where the source is not available?
by ChadNauseam 2y ago
How do they make your life harder compared to projects where the source is not available?
- holowoodman 2y agoMaybe he works for a proprietary-software company that wants to just take the code and never give back. Or maybe he is dissatisfied with lots of OSS licenses being mutually incompatible. But it is weird that just MIT seems to be acceptable to him, I would think some BSD licenses variant would be OK as well. But maybe even an acknowledgement of the hard work of others is too much to ask for...
- Aeolun 2y agoWhen the source is not available, I don’t have to think about whether or not I can use it. When the source is available, I need to carefully consider what the license is, and if it’s anything other than MIT I’ll have to go through a whole approval process to use the thing. Any experience with corporate means you know the thing cannot be used if you value your sanity. I just fundamentally believe that making the source available should be the same as making it free/unencumbered. If you need the legal system to enforce your license for you something is going wrong.