Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model
by brandmeyer on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:57PM
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There's a big difference between licensing code to the world under the terms of Apache 2.0, and licensing code to Google under whatever terms they feel like now or at any time in the future.
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Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model
by skybrian on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:32PM
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I don't think it's an important difference. If you're doing open source at all, you're losing control over what's done with your code, including allowing it to be used by competitors and "bad guys" however you define that.
See (5) and (6) in the open source definition: no discrimination against persons or groups, and no discrimination against fields of endeavor.
If you're unwilling to relinquish control, no open source license is going to be good enough. At best you might scare some risk-adverse companies away from using it, but there are still going to be a lot of people you dislike who can use your software to nefarious ends.