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Throwaway, because I'm pretty sure I will be exorcised for this but.. I've never seen a situation where any of my contributions to open source have provided me

Throwaway, because I'm pretty sure I will be exorcised for this but.. I've never seen a situation where any of my contributions to open source have provided me with the least amount of income. If an author doesn't want to open-source his code, I don't see the big deal. I suppose the HN crowd that legitimately wants to read code, but the majority of the people are going to go to the trouble are going to be programmers who are being whipped mercilessly to build some 3rd rate web app for their corporate masters, or competitors who want to improve their own technology. BTW: Can you link the license page? I am looking for it, but can't find anything. (Mind you: I do think the author is somewhat insane and sounds like almost every bitter 1980s programmer I ever met - but I'd like to see the insane conditions he imposes)

ers35 14y ago
The license can be found in the manual[1] and is included with the software.[2] [1]http://gwan.ch/archives/gwan_linux.pdf http://gwan.ch/archives/gwan_linux.pdf [2]http://gwan.ch/download http://gwan.ch/download
eropple 14y ago
You don't see "the big deal" about running software in a web stack that you can't look at? I can, and have, dig through every piece of software in my web stack. My grasp of postgres is not strong, but I've set up shop in the Linux, nginx, and JVM source code before and I am much, much more confident in my tools for it. I don't use IIS either, and for similar reasons. I'm less worried about it on a desktop (and will run Windows or OS X without complaint) because they're not running things for which I have to care about performance or uptime. But for a service, it's non-negotiable. His "product" is simply nowhere near valuable enough to risk this level of insanity and obfuscation.