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posted by martyb on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:27PM   Printer-friendly
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.

Source : The Universal Donor


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:02PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:02PM (#624333)

    Funny, my personal experience is exactly the opposite.

    I've spent my career earning jack shit for making backend networking code that lets people communicate with each other. They never communicate with me, though. I'm nobody.

    Software behind the scenes that nobody knows or cares about isn't valuable enough to pay for. It's just not visible enough.

    I've been making a good living coding on FOSS platforms for over fifteen years now.

    Interesting choice of words, "coding on FOSS platforms." How much of your actual code is open source, dear person who pretends to code open source for pay?

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:53PM (3 children)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:53PM (#624379) Journal

    Interesting choice of words, "coding on FOSS platforms." How much of your actual code is open source, dear person who pretends to code open source for pay?

    I never pretended to code open source for pay, although I did work for $LARGEUNIXCO many years ago integrating FOSS into the OS (and I have 3 lines of code in the kernel, which was open sourced...)

    In my spare time I dabble and have put one or two silly little things on the Intertubes, mostly for comedy value.

    However, I have invested time and energy helping newbies get up to speed with Linux (privately and in a corporate setting) so I'm not a complete and utter leach on "the Community." And I have a Slackware subscription.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:04PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:04PM (#624393)

      Spoken like a leech.

      Vote Tory to keep your ill-gotten money.

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:02PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:02PM (#624390) Journal

    Software behind the scenes that nobody knows or cares about isn't valuable enough to pay for. It's just not visible enough.

    Oh yes it is. One particular thing I worked on is on at least 500 000 devices. That was years ago. I bet it's twice that now.