Developers: Stop Donating Your Work to Cloud Service Providers

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5 points·jtao1735··3 comments

When I saw Redis relicense to the SSPL last week, I knew that the developer community would be unhappy. It’s not the first time this has happened and definitely not the last either.

But as developers, instead of this kneejerk reaction, we need to take a step back and understand why open-source companies continue to move away from permissive licenses. Are the licenses we choose really preserving our freedom? Who are we really helping when we release our projects under licenses that don’t protect our rights?

Being a developer as well as an open-source entrepreneur, I wanted to put down my thoughts with regards to licensing and start a conversation within our community.

i agree, at first i thought GPL was crazy. If i add a google tracking code to a template file I have to submit that back. but now i'm like ok, you modify it you have to publish your changes. makes sense so these a*hole corps don't rip our shit and make billions

Well written, thanks. Fully autonomous people seem to have a sharing instinct, likely dating back to our hunter-gatherer ancestors that - by virtue of being an instinct - is very hard to fight. So I am not holding my breath for any rapid changes in that behavior (for example by turn to copy left licenses), but the more often it happens the better for all of us.

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