Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff
by yakubin on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:42AM
(#35419901)
Not given back to the original authors, but given to the users.
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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff
by uuuguaii on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:59AM
(#35420057)
Issue is that many large corporations use FLOSS internally with heavy extensions/modifications and never give back to the community. They don't have to, since all users are in-housr, and those tend to have access to the source code.
But that's ok. If upstream is somewhat active then it's just a pain to keep maintaining your in-house patches, compared to sending them upstream. So that's automatically a motivator. If upstream is not active, then it does not matter anyway.
Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff
by sokoloff on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:54AM
(#35421411)
Only if you give those users your modified version.
If I host GPL software on a webserver and my users use that webserver, I don’t have to give them the source code for modified GPL programs. This is fairly common.
Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff
by ilikehurdles on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:08AM
(#35423819)
Depends on which GPL you’re using.