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    Seeing big companies take advantage of BSD or MIT licensed projects without sharing their contributions will always pain me. (lemmy.world)
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    [โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    What if your open source code is awful and is unusable, and a company comes in and makes it actually useful? What if it's used in a medical device that saves hundreds of peoples lives every day?

    You've now gone from free but unusable, to also fee an unusable, but in addition to paid and actually useful.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    First of all, in many cases, writing new code is lot easier than trying to modify/salvage old code from someone else. Unless you can just plug it in for a modular function in that case your code is not useless.

    And if they think your code is valuable enough to save that many people after they improve it, they can approach you for dual license or other agreements. They pay people with patent all the time, so they can do the same for people who's volunteering their time for open source.