• dandi8@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    I don’t think source-available licenses have any chance of outcompeting open source, or at least I hope developers won’t let them.

    Open source thrives on contributions. The moment you restrict what I can do with the software I’m supposed to contribute to is the moment I ask myself: “am I being asked to work for free, solely for the benefit of someone else?”.

    The incentive to contribute completely disappears (at least to me) when I’m asked to do it for a project which “belongs to someone in particular”.