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The Universal Donor (Open Source Licensing)

posted by martyb on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the waiting-for-the-multiverse-donor dept.

canopic jug writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:39PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:39PM (#624367)

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:46PM (#624371)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @07:02AM (#624606)

      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.