Comment on Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 days agoI’m not talking about “now”; I’m talking about the future. Enshittification is inevitable in proprietary software.
Free-software licenses provide risk mitigation against different legal threats or behaviors that are seen as potentially harmful by developers:
| Frequently used protective and permissive licenses | AGPLv3 | GPLv3 | GPLv2 | LGPLv3 | LGPLv2.1 | MPLv2 | Apache-2.0 | BSD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SaaS/cloud | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Tivoization | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Patent trolling | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Proprietization | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | No |
| Granularity | Project | Project | Project | Library | Library | File | - | - |
| Trademark grant | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | No |
benny@reddthat.com 1 day ago
While I agree with what you’re saying, this is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Funding sources and incentives also matter, GPL projects don’t enshittify, but it can be harder to build a community with those developers who would like a more permissive license, while most but maybe not all Apache projects can remain faithful to their missions and not enshittify. More competition means I as a user can choose from features and other things too, and not just the license.