Daniel Abrecht via Dng said on Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:17:14 +0200

>Am 2025-09-02 14:35, schrieb Kevin Chadwick via Dng:
>> My point of view is that we want open source contributors to be good
>> actors and the GPL does not help with that and just erects walls to
>> good actors that need to make a living primarily and contribute
>> because they want to.
>
>The GPL doesn't erect any walls at all.

Once I GPL my code, I can't sell it because everybody who downloads it
is my competitor, and they didn't need to take months getting the code
right. I think this is the wall to which Kevin refers.

In fact, for just that reason, I usually use the Epoch license (similar
to one of the BSD licenses) so that I can take a modification of my
code and take it private, if I want to (and so can anybody else).

However, if I build my mailing list replacement, I'll probably license
it Affero to keep the walled garden monopolists away.

SteveT

Steve Litt

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