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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: 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.

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