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What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would understand if Canonical want a new cow to milk, but why are developers even agreeing to this? Are they out of their minds?? Do they actually want companies to steal their code? Or is this some reverse-uno move I don't see yet? I cannot fathom any FOSS project not using the AGPL anymore. It's like they're painting their faces with "here, take my stuff and don't contribute anything back, that's totally fine"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does anyone use MPL anymore? Is it a decent middle ground or the worst of both worlds?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Speaking for myself, it’s because future monetization can be easier under mit when using a foss utility and private code.

My project would not exist at all unless there were ways to make money off it.

True, others can also use that same code too, in the exact same way, but that requires quite the investment, and those of us that are doing this are banking on not getting the interest of a monopoly in that way. We are competing against other small businesses who have limited resources.

At the same time the free part can get a boost by the community.

I comment a lot in politics here, and am sometimes an ass, so cannot name this project

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like BSDs more than GPL just personal choice

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Squeek, squack. Your opinion is whack

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

lol grow up

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

My rule-of-thumb is: is the licence going to make things better for users? In other words, I try to predict whether a company would just not use my AGPL-licensed code, or would potentially contribute back. If they wouldn't, I don't really care and rather my code at least gets used to build something presumably useful.

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