The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code

Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by furyofantares on Monday November 23, 2020 @12:52PM (#25189468)

It's interesting that people are calling for him to get a switch specifically and not for him to get $200 which he could spend on a switch or not. That would make it feel like a market transaction and would call into question whether it was the right price, even though it was licensed to bypass the market.

So this is some sort of middle ground, folks feel like there should be a more meaningful gesture than is required by the license without feeling like it should be put into the psychological category of compensation/market rate.

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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by boomboomsubban on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:41PM (#25190042)

Or somebody read their tweet, and then personally imagined how cool it would be if one day they got a package saying "we used your code, here's a Switch as thanks." People aren't always making complex cost/benefit analysis before posting a one sentence tweet.

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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by furyofantares on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:41PM (#25190793)

I don't see how that's in disagreement with what I found interesting?

Usually the sentiment I see expressed in these threads reads to me as: hey, it's not fair that this company is profiting on your (permissively licensed) work without sharing the profit.

But I think that is not the sentiment being expressed here, and rather it is the thing you said.

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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by boomboomsubban on Monday November 23, 2020 @04:47PM (#25192326)

I thought you were discussing the twitter replies, not the discussion here.

The top comment in this thread, the one I replied to, is basically "I'm happy for the guy, but why do people think Nintendo should/would contribute back?" It's the same GPL vs BSD discussion, just people aren't trying to rain on the individual's celebration.

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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by tylersmith on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:34PM (#25189942)

The license didn't require acknowledgment at all. This is already a more meaningful gesture than is required. They are specifically calling out this software as something powering the Switch software.

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Re:The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code by xeeeeeeeeeeenu on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:29PM (#25190654)

MIT does require acknowledgement. Nintendo was legally obliged to include the full text of the license and the copyright notices in their documentation.

Not everyone is a fan of that requirement, which is why Unlicense, 0BSD, 1-clause BSD and Boost licenses were created.

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