Open Source Exploitation and Burnout

Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by catern on Saturday July 30, 2016 @01:48PM (#12193899)

To avoid being exploited and burning out, use the GPL for your projects.

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Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by dmlittle on Saturday July 30, 2016 @01:50PM (#12193910)

How does using GPL avoid the issue? I'm just curious and trying to learn something new.

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Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by gregatragenet3 on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:04PM (#12193974)

A commercial company writing software dependent on your GPL code is obliged to release their modifications/code under GPL. Not neccissisaraly so with other licences. So it's a way to force them to give back if they want to use your code.

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Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by senko on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:11PM (#12194016)

This is a common misconception. They don't have to release them under GPL if they don't distribute the modified version. With SaaS, this is in practice true for any server side code that remains private to the company. Affero GPL addresses this but I haven't seen it much in the wild.

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Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by match on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:55PM (#12194431)

Also because of this many SaaS and IaaS companies do not permit the use of OSS where the license requires them to release their source.

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