viral licensing

  1. RetroComputingCollector

    On the existence and safety of MongoDB in ports

    On reading the SSPL, I can see how it can be interpreted in two ways. The "Sane Way" is just opensourcing your backend. The "Insane Way" is opensourcing your backend, drivers, BIOS and microcode (and possibly more!). I don't know how this software should be allowed in the ports collection. It is...
  2. astyle

    Licensing rant / debate thread

    We have lots of licenses in the Open Source / Free Software world. CDDL, GNU GPL v.1/2/3, BSD, MIT, and more. Even QT Company has its own licenses that dictate what you may or may not do with their software. And those licenses do have purposes - like controlling the extent of plagiarism, making...
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