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martyb
on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:27PM
from the waiting-for-the-multiverse-donor dept.
from the waiting-for-the-multiverse-donor dept.
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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Grelb's Reminder:
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
average drivers.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:54PM (2 children)
It's a brave GNU world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:09PM (1 child)
The GNU lifestyle is great if you like living like a bum and being treated like shit. But let's be real. Open source doesn't pay a dime. You can write as much code as you like but there's no money to be made by coding.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JNCF on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:30PM
I've heard
Harry PotterLennart Poettering can transmute unnecessary complexity into user support contracts.