cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51038205
What are your thoughts? Any counter-counter points to the author’s response to most concerns regarding open source?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51038205
What are your thoughts? Any counter-counter points to the author’s response to most concerns regarding open source?
Is that not a good reason, if you are trying to help people, and competitors likely would damage that mission? There’s a thousand possible reasons, and I really wonder why you can’t imagine any of them…
Because if you care about user you should be at least transparent to them, in your example you could make your codebase open-source with a license restricting it for commercial uses
You can’t. Blocking commercial use stops a licence being open source. If you don’t want commercial competition, then you need copyleft, so anyone using your code has to share their modifications with whoever they give binaries to. If they end up using your code to make a better product, then it’ll have to be open source, too, and you can incorporate the improvements back into your version.