2026-11-10 15:06 UTC
Replies (12)
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@YourBestFriend@quokk.au 2026-11-10 15:10
Real developers use the UNLICENSE
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@Lydia_K@lemmy.world 2026-11-10 15:25
It makes sense for government organizations, they use public money, therefore it should available to the public to do anything they want with it. But I don’t understand why small independent devs choose to use a license like this over the GPL.
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@mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-11-10 15:25
How specific can licenses really get? Would it be possible to update the license on a version update of an existing library to for instance specifically forbid Fortune 1000 companies from using it, but everyone else can? It would be amazing to see these places get their tech stacks ripped out from under them, although of course many would just illegally use the code and never tell
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@dtrain@lemmy.world 2026-11-10 15:36
I’m out of the loop Is this topical?
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@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2026-11-10 15:56
Why don’t developers or developer organizations just keep licenses and rights to certain codes for themselves. Keep the rights but freely make it available for everyone to use. But if a company steps in to make anything proprietary, then you exercise your right to the intellectual property of your code and make a decision for yourself … either agree and make money on it (because developers need to make a living as well) … or refuse and with hold the right for certain groups, companies or corporations to use it (and if you do end up in court over it, chances are high that the developer will get money out of that too)
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@Grimy@lemmy.world 2026-11-10 16:06
MIT, Apache, or bust. I don’t consider copy left true open source. I welcome the downvotes.
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@JTode@lemmy.world 2026-11-10 16:12
There’s a meme image in this style, of a deadpan guy in the corner at a party, talking to noone, and the caption is his thoughts. I’m that guy, and I’m thinking, “The license-filtering capabilities of AI code have made this debate pointless… unless we deal with Capitalism.”
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@ch00f@lemmy.world 2026-11-10 16:23
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@agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2026-11-10 16:39
Is this ai? It’s looks ai.
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@SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-11-10 16:41
cool slop bro
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@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2026-11-10 17:10
I changed to the BSD license 20 years ago for new stuff. In enforcing the GPL on one of my projects and sharing code back to the source, as initially agreed by their boss, 3 Korean guys went to jail when the boss changed his mind, and the charge was corporate espionage. Fsf declined to pursue it. I certainly could not as a volunteer. I came away from the experience feeling that the GPL is toothless, and I gave up on it.
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@ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2026-11-10 17:14
Not that it’s much better but Apple does give more than 25 quids.