No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by nmfisher on Monday November 09, 2020 @06:00AM (#25033488)

Of course, licence clauses won't physically stop someone who is fine with wilful infringement. But they're not intended to. They're intended to restrict the behaviour of people who, by and large, respect the law.

It's practically unthinkable that a company like Apple/Amazon/etc is going to create an expensive, complicated international legal structure to conceal wilful infringement of some open source licence.

It's perfectly achievable to write a licence that forbids use or incorporation in products, servers or services from particular companies.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by sokoloff on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:55AM (#25034245)

It’s achievable. You could even just name the companies with a periodic process to update the list.

There are all kinds of ways you can write a license that won’t be used popularly but would achieve this specific goal. Do you want to close “your” software off to companies who might seek to be acquired later?

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