Basically, Synergy (cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing software) once was a one-time purchase, then moved to a subscription model. They took great pains to specify the new maintenance license did not apply to existing early adopters - see email below.
And then today I get this message saying my license is about to expire !
Is it even legal to pull something like this? In any case it's not a great way to treat early adopters !
I’m not naive; a license is as effective as pissing in the wind if you don’t have the means to enforce it. Still, any recommendation on licenses to make it as difficult as possible for people like Palmer Luckey or dtolnay to benefit from it, in general??
Permissive is good, I don’t care whether it matches a libertarian definition of “open”.
We published a transcript of "The state of software #patents in 2022" by FSF #licensing volunteer Panos, which was given during the 2022 LibrePlanet conference. The talk covers many important basics about patents and software patents in particular: https://u.fsf.org/3zr
We published a transcript of "The state of software #patents in 2022" by FSF #licensing volunteer Panos, which was given during the 2022 LibrePlanet conference. The talk covers many important basics about patents and software patents in particular: https://u.fsf.org/3zr
Reviewing some content in this ante-penultimate (!!!) chapter of _Business Success with #OpenSource _ and suspect I may have been in an "I'm sick of this crap" mood when I wrote this.
@happyborg if you wish, publish your code on whichever license you want.
Stop shaming and blaming developers that donate their time and code to everybody.
Not everybody wants a viral license.
Your toot is harmful. Shaming and blaming others will have an effect of them not giving a damn about open source. #GPL is not the answer to everything. There are dozens of #opensource licenses to choose from. Why do you try to polarize the community?
We now understand why permissive #licensing is bad for #FOSS.
#Redis taught us why #GPL is important and #MIT, #Apache, #BSD etc allow corporations to enclose and steal our contributions.
#Israel's use of #Lavender for targeting in #Gaza, which may also use the code we donated to the commons, shows that we need to be more restrictive if we want to avoid assisting war crimes and probable #genocide.
I hope some lawyers are on this, and will help us add exclusions to protect from such use.
@onepict
Yep. It was only recently I properly understood why I was always reluctant to contribute to a permissive #FOSS project. I knew it was bad, but Redis have given the example I needed to explain it in one word.
All my own projects are GPL and I will never contribute to anything like #MIT, #Apache or #BSD licensed code. If I need a project I'll just fork and switch it to GPL. #Licensing
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