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That support would inevitably come with strings attached. Which most open source maintainers fervently avoid.
by rini17 2y ago
That support would inevitably come with strings attached. Which most open source maintainers fervently avoid.
- palata 2y agoPermissive licenses come with strings attached (that most companies ignore): attribution. With copyleft licenses, nothing say that you have to get your changes upstream: you just have to distribute them to the users. It's not a whole lot more complicated than attribution: set up a repo and put your fork there publicly.
- rini17 2y agoAttribution has its own issues too, like when curl developers faced Toyota owners who were grasping at straws because the curl attribution featured prominently in the car's malfunctioning entertainment system.