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Re:Show HN: We just released + open sourced our internal tim... by gokhan on Friday August 08, 2014 @04:15AM (#8151927)
So you'll give us the permission to go commercial with your code and call us jerk if we actually go commercial?
Re:Show HN: We just released + open sourced our internal tim... by haar on Friday August 08, 2014 @04:24AM (#8151947)
He grants the rights to go commercial with their code, but reserves the right to call us names for doing so. Still sounds like a good deal to me.
Re:Show HN: We just released + open sourced our internal tim... by rjtavares on Friday August 08, 2014 @05:32AM (#8152065)
Name-calling rights are far too often forgotten in modern day contracts, I'm afraid...
Re:Show HN: We just released + open sourced our internal tim... by jenscow on Friday August 08, 2014 @04:29AM (#8151953)
I think that's one of the barriers that prevents code from being released: People (like myself) worried that others would take that code and compete with you.
Re:Show HN: We just released + open sourced our internal tim... by jakobbuis on Friday August 08, 2014 @05:36AM (#8152076)
Than use a different license that explicitly forbids that. Or force them to get your permission first. Using an open-source license is not mandatory