> Yeah on the one hand, isn't opening your source all about not really minding what happens to it after that? No! That's a gross misrepresentation of what open sourcing is. It's the offer of a deal. You publish the…
Issue is that many large corporations use FLOSS internally with heavy extensions/modifications and never give back to the community. They don't have to, since all users are in-housr, and those tend to have access to the…
The problems are attribution and licensing. Not use.
That's very generous of you. Don't get angry though if I go ahead and re-publish all your code with your name replaced by mine. That's exactly what you are allowing me to do with such a license.
> I'm not aware of any Open Source license,or Free license for that matter,that has a give-back clause. Source code is available to -users- ,not prior-authors. In essence, copyleft licenses are exactly that. They oblige…
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> Yeah on the one hand, isn't opening your source all about not really minding what happens to it after that? No! That's a gross misrepresentation of what open sourcing is. It's the offer of a deal. You publish the…
Issue is that many large corporations use FLOSS internally with heavy extensions/modifications and never give back to the community. They don't have to, since all users are in-housr, and those tend to have access to the…
The problems are attribution and licensing. Not use.
That's very generous of you. Don't get angry though if I go ahead and re-publish all your code with your name replaced by mine. That's exactly what you are allowing me to do with such a license.
> I'm not aware of any Open Source license,or Free license for that matter,that has a give-back clause. Source code is available to -users- ,not prior-authors. In essence, copyleft licenses are exactly that. They oblige…
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