lautan@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoI'm giving up — on open source - Blognutjs.devexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down155file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansopensource
arrow-up1-39arrow-down1external-linkI'm giving up — on open source - Blognutjs.devlautan@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansopensource
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months ago So, due to these naive believes, I started to work on nut.js under Apache-2.0 license, because I thought that if companies and individuals alike are able to permissively use my software, they would also be willing to support me in return. lol
minus-squaretabular@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 months ago“I gave my work out for free, no strings attached!” Using a copyleft license instead gives me a chance to get access to any changes they make if they redistribute my code. Going proprietary isn’t an option: that denies others helping me and denies my user’s software freedoms.
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“I gave my work out for free, no strings attached!”
Using a copyleft license instead gives me a chance to get access to any changes they make if they redistribute my code.
Going proprietary isn’t an option: that denies others helping me and denies my user’s software freedoms.