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by phkahler 267 days ago
>> Am I missing something?

No, you're not but I did! So GPL then. Maybe I just wanted to make up a scenario. I'm not sure why MIT/BSD have become so popular, they have their place but I don't think they have any place in software infrastructure.
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yunohn 266 days ago
I truly don’t understand nor follow what you mean? What makes MIT/BAD bad for software infra?
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phkahler 266 days ago
>> I truly don’t understand nor follow what you mean? What makes MIT/BAD bad for software infra?

You should have access to the source for your infra as a user of it. MIT/BSD allow people to deploy without offering source, so they can do whatever they want with it and then you get to use it. TiVoisation is more than possible among many other user-hostile options. "But you can always get the source!" is not a valid response - you can't get the source for this thing that's running right now.

Freedom to deny other peoples freedom is no part of "Free Software" but it goes on all the time with "Open Source".

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yunohn 265 days ago
That is a valid POV I hadn’t fully considered.

But I would hesitate to blame this on the original OSS author’s license choice - the vendor can always provide source even without the force of GPL. Heck, rather making it GPL means almost no hosting company will provide it.

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