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on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:27PM
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Over at the Meshed Insights blog, Simon Phipps writes about why the public domain falls short and more detailed licensing is needed in order to extend rights to a software community.
Yes, public domain may give you the rights you need. But in an open source project, it's not enough for you to determine you personally have the rights you need. In order to function, every user and contributor of the project needs prior confidence they can use, improve and share the code, regardless of their location or the use to which they put it. That confidence also has to extend to their colleagues, customers and community as well.
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday January 18 2018, @06:41PM (6 children)
The problem with BSD licensing, from my point of view at least: The primary user of BSD these days is Apple. So basically working on BSD code is you (or your firm, if somebody's paying you) putting in your hours so that Apple can get whatever great innovations you come up with for free.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:42PM (1 child)
I don't see how that negatively affects you.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:57PM
It's the difference between, say, volunteering at the local food bank, and volunteering to work for Walmart for free. One is giving away your time for the greater public good, one is giving away your time so somebody who's already rich can get richer.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:39PM (2 children)
You really don't get what open source is all about, do you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:46PM (1 child)
Open source is about slave labor. Unpaid slaves do the work. Corporations get the profits.
By convincing programmers to use the GPL, RMS sold programmers into slavery.
GNU is a cult and RMS is a slave trader.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @07:02AM
Lame troll is lame. Actually Stallman as the GPL creator is the one person protecting software freedom.
The corporations cannot abuse your (A)GPL'd software but they can and do use MIT, BSD and PD stuff all the time.
If you can't make money as a programmer, do something else or learn some useful skill as a programmer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @01:57AM
So, in summary, BSD licensing is bad "because Apple." You know, you've got me thinking. Google uses a GPL licensed operating system as a thin layer between hardware and massive amounts of proprietary software. I don't like GPL licensed software "because Google". I guess I'm off to install Windows. At least Microsoft writes all their own stuff!