OT - Closing Off An Open-Source Product
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Apr 12 04:08:59 EDT 2001
Chris wrote:
> I submit that the "hacker ethic" is the real protection here anyway, because
> if a "big guy" steals a major piece
what if "hackers" working for a big GPL guy takes your non-GPL'd open
source code, makes a usually trivial change, and instead of contributing
the change back to the original author, they redistribute the result as
their own code, under GPL?
has happened to me many times...
(and for some reason, non-GPL folks never do things like that. go figure)
Cheers /F
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