Comment by Devasta
2 years ago
This is why everyone should switch to AGPL3.
You can use MIT/BSD/Apache/GPL3 dependencies without issue; never need to worry about derivative works or anything like that, just set it and forget it, and because corporations avoid you like the plague you can code away without a care in the world for backwards compatibility.
The BSD/MIT license is free as in free tech support, always has been.
Agreed.
“It’s too hard for dev teams to fund open source”: yes, it is; but we’re not going to fix that by giving them the code for free. If businesses really want something, they’ll pay. What’s missing are better ways for commercial entities-and dev teams therein- to monetarily support devs when they need to use a licence for commercial purposes because clearly the current parasitic economic model isn’t working.
>free tech support
Like, what, open-source police are going to arrest you for not addressing support questions?
MIT/BSD is "free as in the maintainer is free to ignore any and all tech support requests."