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Re:Why I replaced MIT with copyleft license for Nodemailer by vacri on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:59PM (#13565374)
So, to repeat, "I guess we have different ideas on what makes a community."

> tell me why BBQs are generally not open to anyone

Hence why I specified "local community", not "someone's friend's backyard".

In any case, you're missing the point of the analogy, and extend any analogy and it will fall apart. You're missing the human aspect of FOSS, instead interpreting it as a literal legal case.

And yes, there is expectation in FOSS that others will pitch in and help when your project is extremely popular. ESR, coiner of the 'open source' term we're talking about, explicitly promoted it with the term 'enough eyeballs make all bugs shallow'. How is that not seen as an expectation of kicking back at least some effort?

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Re:Why I replaced MIT with copyleft license for Nodemailer by Chris2048 on Saturday February 04, 2017 @09:24AM (#13567058)
The issue is the expectation that you will receive contributions, versus obligation on all users to contribute, and I don't think there is any obligation.

ESRs quote praises the OS virtue of allowing source code to be read, it doesn't imply an obligation on all users of FOSS, legal, moral, or otherwise.

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