I'm giving up — on open source - Blog - eviltoast

Sustainable open source will stay a dream

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    So, due to these naive believes, I started to work on nut.js under Apache-2.0 license, because I thought that if companies and individuals alike are able to permissively use my software, they would also be willing to support me in return.

    lol

    • tabular@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      “I gave my work out for free, no strings attached!”

      Using a copyleft license instead gives me a chance to get access to any changes they make if they redistribute my code.

      Going proprietary isn’t an option: that denies others helping me and denies my user’s software freedoms.