>Spend hundreds of hours to create an open-source program
>Company copies it and makes millions of dollars
lmao
>Spend hundreds of hours to create an open-source program. >Company copies it and makes millions of dollars
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>put GPL loicense
>just hire an army of lawyers and sue intel
you just need to contact FSF, they have lawyers
FSF lawyers will work pro bono and welcome the opportunity to create new Supreme Court precedents
>FSF lawyers will work pro bono and welcome the opportunity to create new Supreme Court precedents
This. GPL prevents companies to make money off of open source
GPL and similar copylefted licenses literally give you zero protection against that. In most countries breaking the terms of a license is not a criminal offense, so you would have to file a civil lawsuit against them. And in this regard, coprorations will allways be a few steps ahead of open source community. Unlike people behind open source software , that has huge issues with funding, Corporations have money to spend on lawyers which will surely win the case, but if they somehow dont, they will simply appeal from the judgement as long as they want, since they can afford doing so. But assuming that this will still not work for them, they can literally create a subsidiary company operating in some 3rd world country that does not care about copyright at all. Unless they actually break criminal law, big companies can literally do whatever they want, since they have time and resources to do so, while most people managing and contributing to open source projects very often cant even pay the bills and make the end meet, not to mention spending money on a lawsuit like that. You guys are just completely detached from the reality and you have no idea what you are talking about.
GPL ensures that from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
It literally ensures nothing. Microsoft is breaking the terms of copylefted licenses since late 2021 and is still doing fine. Moreover, people still use GitHub and are happy while doing so. If GPL and licenses alike were actually enforceable, Microsoft would quickly go out of business, but its doing exceptionally well. I am aware of a lawsuit against Microsoft, but the company in question literally doesnt give a single fuck, because as I explained above, they know that they can get away with it. You are just delusional moron, stuck in extremely tight information bubble. Leave your basement, touch some grass and get a life.
GPL unites all coders in all countries.
> It literally ensures nothing. Microsoft is breaking the terms of copylefted licenses since late 2021 and is still doing fine.
No they’re not, the act of uploading to GitHub gives them a separate license, because code can be licensed under more than one license
The solution to fucking over Microsoft isn’t trying to come up with legal gotchas that they’ve had teams of lawyers go over, it’s to delete your GitHub account
>No they’re not, the act of uploading to GitHub gives them a separate license, because code can be licensed under more than one license.
Can you provide a source for that?
>The solution to fucking over Microsoft isn’t trying to come up with legal gotchas that they’ve had teams of lawyers go over, it’s to delete your GitHub account
LMFAO, I would love to see developers all around the world leaving GH behind and going somewhere else. Where will they go exackly? All the alternatives are either obscure, require funds and maintaince or simply do not provide the same experience as GitHub does. Git gut.
"Obscure" is a funny term, when any choice of website is just an URL away. When any project, wherever it is hosted, is always just a Google search away.
What prevents contributors from just registering for bitbucket or gitlab or codeberg if they want to add to a project that's over there? Nothing really. And they're free to use.
>others don't have the same experience as GitHub
That's not something a programmer says. You can find and use any CI/CD/testing tools/bug trackers you want. (And all the alternatives I mentioned already have GitHub features built-in)
> or simply do not provide the same experience as GitHub does.
You can always just keep punching yourself in the face
Everywhere you go, they’ll just mirror your repo on GitHub . Cope and seething dearest Goy
gitlab is almost infinitely better than gh feature-wise, you can even self host your own instance and create your own CI job runners. why don't you switch to it, anon?
>the act of uploading to GitHub gives them a separate license, because code can be licensed under more than one license
This is bullcrap. they can not do this since GPLed code is uploaded to github every day where the uploader is not the owner/author of (all of) the GPLed code that was uploaded. which means neither the uploader nor github have any rights to change or add a different license to the code, no matter what the EULA says. I also highly doubt that this is actually in the EULA of github, so please provide a source of that if you will.
>EULA
I'm sorry, Terms of Services would be the appropriate term here.
Microsoft doesn’t take responsibility for copyright violations by its users. You can probably protect your rights as a developer with a DMCA notice
Remember st ignacius. “Each according to the dictates of his own conscience”
No conscience = Everything allowed
I have worked at big corporations and they do always care about licenses. We were never allowed to use gpl libraries (lgpl was ok) and we had scripts that verified that we don't use blacklisted licenses. We also had a website with licenses for third party software and links to the source code.
At Google they can use gpl but not agpl.
One of the main reasons that the free software foundation exists is to fight for gpl on legal terms. If somebody violates gpl in a project, you can contact the free software foundation.
I remember reading on HN that Google also has a tool for verifying licenses. And they are not to careless as they used to be after the whole Oracle thing.
FSF literally does nothing and has no actual power, especially now , since Red Hat withdrawed all donations to them. Most coprorations do not break those licenses since they dont find it profitable. Microsoft literally violates those licenses since 2021 with Copilot and you cant do anything about it. see
>it won't do anything, goy! vi vil use your open soas softwae and yu vil like it.
Go back to
, looser.
Ok, goy
And ffmpeg still was statically linked in Cyberpunk 2077
Jannies work for free?
feels good doesn't it, glad I use BSD
You may not be aware, but monetizing stuff is surprisingly hard
That's all? In most places outside the west, IP doesn't mean much anyway. A Chinese corp even built a copy of an Austrian village because Chinese tourists love it so much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_(China)
That's how open source works, especially if you didn't put in some non commercial clause. Nothing wrong with it
That's not how it works.
>Company takes it
>Creates a packaged cloud service around it
>Banks on your product
If you don't want that then create some GPL+nagger tier licence that prohibits corporate hosting.
Yes.. do NOT use GPL go- friend.. Its useless after all and companies do not care! Use a cuck license instead!
>the trillionaire bankers with their own private armies cant screw you over because this txt file says so
Pareto principle, son
naggers are disgusting
https://plusnagger.org/
fuck this thread
/threading this thread myself
If I didn't wanted others to use my work I wouldn't share it publicly.
Why should I care?
Right, software freedoms are for INCELs
It must be sad to associate everything with sex.
>Spend hundreds of hours to create an open-source program
>Company uses it and contributes billion dollars worth of code
Yup, we (the non-corpo devs) need to switch to source-available proprietary licenses, and require (at least symbolic) payment for _any_ usage of our software.
>source-available proprietary licenses
That's what GPL is.
>Spend hundreds of hours to create an open-source program
>Company uses your code to feed its AI that makes you as a programmer obsolete and unemployed
what if my license says any company who wants to use my software needs to tweet extremely racist things everyday for a month?