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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, @08:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:58PM (#624386)

    Over the years I have developed various proprietary embedded systems, on FOSS and non-FOSS platforms.

    Thanks for confirming you don't get paid for FOSS. You just exploit the free labor of everyone who never got paid for the FOSS you use. How do you live with yourself knowing you benefit from standing on the shoulders of starving coders?

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Friday January 19 2018, @07:50AM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 19 2018, @07:50AM (#624611) Journal

    Congratulations on an ignorant and simplistic attempt at trolling. You completely miss the point of FOSS and its ecosystem.