Interstellar_1@pawb.social to Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 6 months agoThe reality of modern techfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10
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minus-squareProgrammer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoProtecting FOSS is impossible, there will always be a company that uses your codebase, credits you and includes advertisements to your program. We need to make using FOSS projects the default and using the corporate options as the backup option.
minus-squarewitx@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoWhat I mean is better licenses that make sure you get paid if companies profit from it, and harsher penalties for those that get caught infringing the license
Protecting FOSS is impossible, there will always be a company that uses your codebase, credits you and includes advertisements to your program.
We need to make using FOSS projects the default and using the corporate options as the backup option.
What I mean is better licenses that make sure you get paid if companies profit from it, and harsher penalties for those that get caught infringing the license