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I wish people would seriously consider (A)GPL for their projects more often. It hasn't happened here, though has certainly happened in the past without anyone k
by martin-t 2y ago
I wish people would seriously consider (A)GPL for their projects more often. It hasn't happened here, though has certainly happened in the past without anyone knowing - (A)GPL would make it hard for them to make a closed source "fork".
In fact, I wish an even stronger license existed which allowed the original author to dictate who can build on top of the project to avoid exactly these kinds of situations where a powerful actor completely disempowers the authors while technically following the license (I assume MS will "fix" their error by fixing the licensing information but will continue to compete with Spegel with the intent to make it irrelevant).
- kstrauser 2y ago> I wish an even stronger license existed which allowed the original author to dictate who can build on top of the project Such licenses exist. They're just not Free or Open Source. They can't be, by definition.
- chii 2y agoYep. This is called a commercial license. What people who want such things really are after is the leverage to dictate a form of morality - if you dont have money, you are allowed to use the project for free, and give back advertising/clout. But if you have money, or could get a lot of money for said project, then they want their pay day.
- nathabonfim59 2y agoHave you seen the license of llama models from Meta? > 2. Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee's affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta... ref: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/main/LICENSE But again, not open source...