Re:Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?
by yreg on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:10AM
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Shaming companies for using OpenSSL for free without any strings attached seems to go against the idea of free software.
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Re:Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?
by onion2k on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:17AM
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No part of any open source license says I have to like companies that extract billions in value from open source projects without contributing back to the project. My opinion is simply that once you get to a few million in revenue putting a few thousand back in to the code that got you there is a decent thing to do, and if you don't then you're not very nice.
The fact that the license allows you to do this is great; the fact that people actually do is not.
GPL asks to release back changes to code made by a company, for which the company paid already, i.e. it's almost zero price for the company, and just look how much companies are afraid to donate zero ($0) worth of code back to the opensource project and prefer to pirate it instead, including such mega-rich companies as M$.
> GPL asks to release back changes to code made by a company
Only if the code is distributed. SaaS can be (and is) used to get around this.
Re:Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?
by grey_earthling on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:08AM
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Hence the AGPL.