[gear54rus]

So it failed just because of the stupid outdated law system - just like many other great ideas.

Maybe it's just my idealist part, but isn't it a shame so many efforts (or much effort? not sure) in this world went to waste just because of blabla you can't distribute or blabla you cant build upon... This is digital millenium, wake up!

[cybrox]

Of course it can be frustrating, if you can't build upon a project, if you have an idea that you want to realize. I'd say you have to look at this from the other side. Well, you can't blame people for building upon your project as long as they don't publish or distribute it but would you be happy if somebody distrubutes a better version of your product because he's allowed to build upon its source?

Granted, Mojang did make a lot of Money with Minecraft regardless but especially with open source projects building on other open source projects or especially non-profit projects in this case, this would be really problematic.

Developers don't need to wake up, they just need to put in the effort to chose the right license and make everybody who wants to contribute to their project agree with licensing their own code under said license.

[clarry]

> would you be happy if somebody distrubutes a better version of your product because he's allowed to build upon its source?

If it weren't for projects that make better versions by building upon others' source, I wouldn't be here. Hopefully in the future someone will also find my code good enough to build something upon.