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MIT It solves your problems, and mine. Middle ground. Compromise. What is wrong with MIT?
by code_sterling 11y ago
MIT
It solves your problems, and mine. Middle ground. Compromise.
What is wrong with MIT?
- pjmlp 11y agoYou can take something like LLVM, add a backend for a new processor or a new programming language and never release it back to the LLVM developers. Thus getting for free the work invested into LLVM, being able to sell the modified version and LLVM developer don't see a dime from it.
- code_sterling 11y agoYou mean to say that the original developer who chose to release via MIT, gets exactly what they agreed to? God forbid, you're right, it's a whole moral catastrophe.
- pjmlp 11y agoMany choose a given license without understanding its full consequences.
- code_sterling 11y agoThis is textbook nanny state drivel. You don't need to protect people from themselves. There are thousands of articles online, people can do the research. You aren't publishing anything without access to the internet, and the internet has more than enough articles and even wizards to help you choose.
- pjmlp 11y agoI guess that those posts I see about someone "steeling" their code is a mirage then.
- code_sterling 11y agoNo, those are absolutely real. It's not up to you to protect or stop it. It's a life lesson. It's the same as copyright. Every kid starts some project using someone else's IP. We see it daily. Then someone explains that you can't use Homer Simpson in your app. You don't abolish copyright because some kid gets a C&D.
- code_sterling 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10180209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10180209 As an example.
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