Damus
jb55 · 137w
@nikola you can’t take damus ios code and relicense it as mit. Thats not how gpl works.
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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.


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jb55 · 137w
I still use MIT in some places like libs for ease of adoption but otherwise yes well said.
jared · 137w
I disagree. Some things should be given to the whole world without conditions.
nostrich · 137w
All this talk about licenses assumes that courts are not corrupt.
Mr. Ed, The Talking Horse Trader · 137w
Yes. It’s called theft.
signal_and_rage · 137w
What are some examples where a corp successful used the State to prevent competition?