gsovereignty on Nostr: Quikc rant about licenses: Few understand that MIT is a free to take license designed ...
Quikc rant about licenses:
Few understand that MIT is a free to take license designed for corporate takeover and can be relicensed under whatever the entity doing a corporate takeover of your project wants, and they can then use the State to prevent you from competing with them.
GPL and MPL exist to prevent this. They are share-alike licenses and put you on a level playing field with corporates.
Out of pure self-interest, I will not contribute to an open source project that does not guarantee me, as contributor, that my patches and changes will never be turned into private code, and used against me, so this rules out MIT/BSD licenses.
Out of a sense of ethics, I will never create an open source project that does not provide these guarantees to anyone contributing to it.
Few understand that MIT is a free to take license designed for corporate takeover and can be relicensed under whatever the entity doing a corporate takeover of your project wants, and they can then use the State to prevent you from competing with them.
GPL and MPL exist to prevent this. They are share-alike licenses and put you on a level playing field with corporates.
Out of pure self-interest, I will not contribute to an open source project that does not guarantee me, as contributor, that my patches and changes will never be turned into private code, and used against me, so this rules out MIT/BSD licenses.
Out of a sense of ethics, I will never create an open source project that does not provide these guarantees to anyone contributing to it.