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hardcore leftist ideology (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

My general approach to licensing these days is:

  • binaries, apps, products -> AGPLv3, fuck you I don't care if your company can't use my shit
  • libraries -> MPL-2.0 or LGPL, grr... maybe you can use my library...

For things I might try selling: BUSL. It isn't FOSS. It's source available, but it turns into FOSS after some time period.

I'm not super happy with MPL-2.0: https://piefed.social/c/opensource@lemmy.ml/p/2231796/does-the-mpl-2-0-have-a-giant-loop-hole

I wish we had something closer to OSL 3.0, but OSL itself has its own problems. :/

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Licenses are wonderful and amazing. It's incredibly cool that we have so many choices.

    Companies are outright stealing artists full works and selling access to systems trained on that work.

    Licenses are for me and you and our friends. Corporations DGAF. They will steal your source available content, de-compile your binaries and wrongfully sue you out of existence if you dare to raise a case against them.

    Sure, if you can get someone to represent you for free, you might be able to take a year off work and end up with a small payday.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Corporations DGAF. They will steal your source available content, de-compile your binaries and wrongfully sue you out of existence if you dare to raise a case against them.

    Also true. Although, that doesn't mean you should bend over and make it easy for them by licensing things as MIT. GPL if you can, MPL if you must.

    we have so many choices.

    I'm actually not sure about this. I wish the FSF or someone would come out with more licenses for different use cases.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'm actually not sure about this. I wish the FSF or someone would come out with more licenses for different use cases.

    I disagree. I find that there is a license for every use case. What use case are you thinking of that does not have a license?

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