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0 points0xTJ11mo ago0 comments

I always choose permissive licenses for personal project, and I often avoid depending on other projects that aren't permissive. If I want to know that, if I need to, I can grab the code and change something. And I want others to be able to remix what I make as needed.

The more limitations added on a license, the less open it is.

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GrantMoyer11mo ago

> And I want others to be able to remix what I make as needed. The more limitations added on a license, the less open it is.

It's unintuitive, but permissive licenses are not the best way to acheive this. GPL's "limitations" are designed to maintain the right and abilty to remix code for the end user. So if say Microsoft forks your library and its fork becomes more popular, they can't make it proprietary after capturing the market and effectively stop people from remixing what you made.

bigstrat200311mo ago

> So if say Microsoft forks your library and its fork becomes more popular, they can't make it proprietary after capturing the market and effectively stop people from remixing what you made.

Neither can they stop people from such remixing if the project used a permissive license. The GP's project will still be there, still freely available for anyone to use however they see fit. Nobody is stopped from using it in any way.

pabs311mo ago

The GPs project will become less relevant as the Microsoft fork becomes more popular, when it is fully irrelevant due to incompatible changes they can rugpull and everyone will have to pay them.

Panzer0411mo ago

Only for the next developer. They can do whatever they want, but they aren't obligated to contribute anything back.

consp11mo ago

I would like a relatively permissive software license which forbids any profiteering (CC-NC but then strictly software).

I'm fine with people using my code, not fine with companies profiteering off my work. If you want to use it commercially, pay for it.

0xTJOP11mo ago

If it can't be used commercially, then that's not an open-source license. If you choose to license your work that way, that's your choice, but you're not making something open-source.

simondotau11mo ago

Who said it can’t be used commercially? Just because they can’t profit from it doesn’t stop them using it.

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