Today is the Put Your Open-Source Projects Into Public Domain Day. Face it: your open source ventures earned you no fame and no lucrative job offers.

Really successful open source projects earn their creators those things no matter the license — just look at porsager/postgres.

So, why limit the usage rights?

That's not the point of restrictive open source licenses. The point is that all work based on it must be open source too. Then everyone can use that as well.

@jestdotty it is funny when you work with "it just works™" people, you really look like some code nerd to them who is nitpicking at perfectly fine, well payed piece of software that is bolognese under the hood.

We don't care if the code is shitty, it doesn't matter because app looks pretty!

Works too!

Those people!

For fucks sake!!!

Huh, never participated in PYOSPIPDD before 🤷

The only difference between copyleft and PD is that PD can make someone else a lot of money without my consent. That whole sentence. My own licensing doesn't prevent me from issuing separate licences to anyone who cares enough to send me an email with a pitch.

if you don't care that much and your derivative work isn't important, you can risk that a mature hobbyist who publishes under copyleft may just let it slide and not sue you.

Whoa, whoa. Watch your language.

Number one, "creator" has divine connotation and usage of this word instead of "author" to describe a human being arguably constitutes idolatry.

Second, "open source" is a corporate-driven prostitution of "free software", that is "free" as in "freedom" aka "libre", and by slapping GPL unto everything you are giving these wankers the deepest finger.

Third, interjection is a fully functioning GNU system.

@Liebranca as far as i know, materialising an idea is as close to godhood as you can be, an artist, prophet or dev are all the same. Materialised ideas

@workabit What are you saying? Sajdah is as close to God as anyone can be, anything else is delusion.

Clarification: I was talking about code published under MIT or similar licenses, not GNU.