Even for code I didn't publish (like corporate SDK internals), I have been contacted (which took some work, because my employer did not like customers interacting with Engineering), and told (not "asked" -told) to make changes to our corporate, closed-source SDK to suit some rando's tinkering around (also, for extra credit, said rando hadn't even purchased one of our cameras).
Even open-sourcing has its caveats.
Anyone that has spent any time at all, on most tech forums, have seen the "Open Source Holy Wars" being fought.
I tend to use the MIT license. I won't go into the reasons why. I write OSS, and I support it. I choose to do so under MIT.
In the past, I have been contacted (I make it easy to get in touch with me), and told that I was a "corporate shill" for not using GPL.
That's always a great way to start the day.
Also, our corporation had to fend off a few legal threats, because some of our software looked vaguely like some GPL stuff (I guarantee it wasn't -they were anal about the GPL), so zealots would sometimes throw sueballs (or vague threats, thereof) at us.
At least the patent trolls would do a little bit of homework before attacking us. These folks wouldn't even bother wondering if they might be mistaken before unleashing the hounds.
Even for code I didn't publish (like corporate SDK internals), I have been contacted (which took some work, because my employer did not like customers interacting with Engineering), and told (not "asked" -told) to make changes to our corporate, closed-source SDK to suit some rando's tinkering around (also, for extra credit, said rando hadn't even purchased one of our cameras).
Even open-sourcing has its caveats.
Anyone that has spent any time at all, on most tech forums, have seen the "Open Source Holy Wars" being fought.
I tend to use the MIT license. I won't go into the reasons why. I write OSS, and I support it. I choose to do so under MIT.
In the past, I have been contacted (I make it easy to get in touch with me), and told that I was a "corporate shill" for not using GPL.
That's always a great way to start the day.
Also, our corporation had to fend off a few legal threats, because some of our software looked vaguely like some GPL stuff (I guarantee it wasn't -they were anal about the GPL), so zealots would sometimes throw sueballs (or vague threats, thereof) at us.
At least the patent trolls would do a little bit of homework before attacking us. These folks wouldn't even bother wondering if they might be mistaken before unleashing the hounds.