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Indeed, it seems to me that Public Domain is what Open Source should have been in the first place. The free as in freedom, but not as in free beer quadrant doe
by red_admiral 2y ago
Indeed, it seems to me that Public Domain is what Open Source should have been in the first place.
The free as in freedom, but not as in free beer quadrant doesn't work too well, especially for individual developers.
- sneak 2y agoThere is an argument that without the copyleft provisions of the GPL (sometimes described as a virus), free software would not be as popular and important as it is today.
- psychoslave 2y agoHumanity also was described as a virus, see for example The Matrix. Also capitalism, communism, socialism, any political system, religions, philosophies, cultures, and anything you might relate or hate at mental level. Even the idea that whatever we dislike that gains more than zero popularity should be compared to a virus, this meme spreads like a virus.
- dec0dedab0de 2y agoYou can release a binary as public domain. Also, I believe that public domain as a concept does not exist in some countries. if i remember correctly the concern is that without a license the original author could change their mind and sue. But any public domain software also matches the fsf and osi definition of free software and open source respectively. Atleast in jurisdictions where public domain exists. You may be confusing things with copy-left, which is designed to protect users from developers. The gpl is a copy-left license.