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That’s not the problem. The question is, stopping actors that put ads and paywalls behind modified source, which technically isn’t malicious, it’s just being a jerk and this licensing makes it much easier to take down. Ofc, if he actually wanted it to be open source, he’d just force all derivatives to be non commercial.
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Yeah... You're not going to stop any of that without war.
Oh yeah, because someone who wants to do that is going to see that and think oh no, he doesn't want us to, guess we shouldn't
That’s not the point. The point is takedown actions being a lot easier especially if one of the idiots tries to argue against
The point is, that anyone who tries to make money by ad-bombing the app and adding it to the playstore will be punished. If you post your virus-infected fork in the far-behind edge of internet-nowhere Louis would not care about that. Otherwise: why do you not ask him yourself if you want to post your own fork and under which conditions that should be possible. If you ride principles, then develop your own app that is much much better and FOSS than grayjay. Nobody stops you.
I mean, at least in this case he can take down fake copies from the most popular app stores. That mitigates the reach of malicious clones a lot.
Rossman is an idiot, that's how. Luckily he's a useful idiot in most cases.
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I commented earlier that if after a year of development they "haven't figured out" the license, they're just poaching the open source reputation until they can milk it later on. I would be shocked to find out this temporary license goes the other way and goes GPL or MIT.
The thing with Rossman is that he's very pro consumer, but also very pro business. it seems his analysis refuses to go any deeper than that. You can hear the cogs of dissonance churning every so often when he comes up with some of his more garbage takes.