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I say the same thing about GNU licensed software: if the author just gave me my preferred licensing terms, I wouldn't be forced to use it in proprietary softwar
by jazz9k 2y ago
I say the same thing about GNU licensed software: if the author just gave me my preferred licensing terms, I wouldn't be forced to use it in proprietary software without compenstion.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoHow is pirating books to read them by myself comparable to proactively selling other people's work?
- drawkward 2y agoNeither belonged to you in the first place.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoAnd yet, one of these options is much more benign than the other.
- jazz9k 2y agonope.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoIndeed, it is!
- fc417fc802 2y ago> without compenstion A key point here is that GP expressed a willingness to pay. The analogy would be attempting to license a piece of GPL software that you've decided to integrate into your proprietary stack and being outright refused for ideological reasons. Still illegal but people are probably going to perceive it a bit differently.