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Making JS frameworks is much cheaper than doing necessary legal works to draft a new license. (Not all OSI-approved licenses are written by lawyers, but many if
by lifthrasiir 2y ago
Making JS frameworks is much cheaper than doing necessary legal works to draft a new license. (Not all OSI-approved licenses are written by lawyers, but many if not most of them should have been eventually reviewed by lawyers at least once.)
- usrusr 2y agoMuch cheaper for the company footing the bill, and much less worthwhile for the expert convincing the company that it's a good idea to spend the money.
- Propelloni 2y ago> Making JS frameworks is much cheaper than doing necessary legal works to draft a new license. Serious question: What makes you think that? In my world, a legal professional whips up a license in a few days, from there you iterate. It's pretty much like software development and neither more or less expensive. What I see is that legal work items often have more idle time, because we usually have less legal professionals than software developers and we often need to get feedback from people who are not readily available, thus potentially increasing cost of delay, but that's all I can think of. I'm certain I'm missing something. What is it?
- lifthrasiir 2y agoSimple: most if not all JS frameworks are not profitable, so they are almost always driven by passion. (It will be much more expensive if you have to pay someone to write a JS framework for some weird reason.) That alone explains a proliferation of JS frameworks as the original comment questioned, while the number of different software licenses wouldn't be explained as such.
- Propelloni 2y agoAhhh, I see. Thank you. I didn't take this into account and was looking at the issue from a business perspective only. Thanks again.