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mke@lemmy.world 2 months agoI might not be the best person to explain this, but I believe you’re misunderstanding.
Outside of software spaces the discussion around copyright seems so much more nuanced.
Inside software spaces, specific needs beget specific discussions. They are as nuanced as they need to be.
Did you know [Creative Commons] themselves recommend against using CC licenses for software?
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you - I would love to read any resources that you have
mke@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, that’s wonderful to read!
If you’re wondering what sort of issue being careless with licenses can cause, see the (in)famous case of Tivoization. GPL 3 was written partly to solve issues like this.
For a more recent example of how community/contributors and owner/company interest misalignment can make a huge mess, see the consequences of HashiCorp changing the Terraform license from MPL to BUSL. Relevant facts I’d like to note:
Or, for a lighter case:
A while back I saw a project on GitHub licensed as CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The developer was considering writing a guide for contributors, even though I’m pretty sure you can’t fork and modify it to open a PR (popular way to offer contributions), because that’d break the ND clause (sharing derivatives). Were people supposed to e-mail the developer with patches? Who knows! There are people into that, like the Linux Kernel folks.
And finally, here’s what I thought was a very interesting take on what free means when talking about software licenses, touching upon obligations, rights and copyleft.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks, I appreciate it. I’ll check it out.