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What do you say to people who want to stop using Open Source software licences and instead use 'Fair Source' licences intended to prevent cloud companies moneti
by MaxBarraclough 2y ago
What do you say to people who want to stop using Open Source software licences and instead use 'Fair Source' licences intended to prevent cloud companies monetising the works of others?
For instance, here's discussion about a blog post titled So you want to compete with or replace open source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40993787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40993787
With no copyright, it would be akin to using permissive BSD-style licensing, which is by no means everyone's preference.
- boltzmann-brain 2y agoGood for them. Free Software is much too easy to abuse, and we need something that provides additional protections.
- MaxBarraclough 2y agoSounds like you believe copyright can serve a legitimate purpose then. I presume you don't hold that IP is an obsolete idea of a bygone century, as ysofunny put it.