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But why should I work for free so that companies can fire my fellow human beings?
by LtWorf 1mo ago
But why should I work for free so that companies can fire my fellow human beings?
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- brainwad 1mo agoThe causality is wrong here. You chose to work for free with no reward, and _then_ companies found your work and used it. Presumably you started out working for free because it was intrinsically rewarding (otherwise: stop doing work you hate for free?).
- LtWorf 1mo agoI chose to do it for free to help other people. And picking a MIT license does the opposite.
- brainwad 1mo agoWhy? MIT license or public domain helps the most people, because anyone can use it. It being usable by corporations is purely additive, it can't subtract from the number of people you'd help with a copyleft license.
- LtWorf 1mo agoPutting people out of jobs doesn't necessarily help them?
- knorker 1mo agoHuh? You release code so that people will have to rewrite it? I really don't understand what your goal would be in releasing code at all, then.
- LtWorf 1mo agoDid you read my comment or you just reply for the sake of it? I release the code so that people and companies that feel like contributing to the community can use it. Companies that want to take without giving back however are mildly inconvenienced by copyleft.
- ghaff 1mo agoHow? If they don't make (and distribute) changes.
- LtWorf 1mo agoBecause they cannot distribute the software itself or use it for online services with AGPL
- ghaff 1mo agoDistributing (however defined by a given license) unmodified software that is presumably widely available to customers may be a requirement but is also a profoundly uninteresting legal requirement.
- LtWorf 1mo agohttps://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy/ https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
- ghaff 1mo agoI don't think we're disagreeing about anything. I wasn't giving a legal opinion but lawyers, especially at large firms, are a lot more conservative about some matters than I might be for a personal project. If you have deep pockets and provide any path to those pockets, someone could sue you. I used to work for a very open source-friendly company and, while AGPL wasn't broadly verbotten and I can't quote any publicly available documents, its use was not encouraged in general. (And outside of Linux which was what it was, permissive licenses became much more common for new projects.)