Comment by rmbyrro
2 years ago
If you consider this an abuse, you're not in favor of the spirit of open source to avoid discrimination.
You think uses should be discriminated between acceptable and abusive.
It's OK to think that way, but it's not an open source way of thinking.
The original goal of Free Software, and the part I vibe with, is that you should have full freedom and control of the software you run.
The people taking someone else's tool and rehosting it with better SEO and more ads steals revenue from the original author and makes them less likely to make more open source stuff. It's greedy and hurts the community. I get why people would want non-OSI licences that allow everything but that.
As for whether its Abuse, idk, I don't want to lay out a precise definition and have a semantics argument. But its definitely not a cool thing to do
> A number of them even have the gall to post links advertising them in the comments of my own tools.
That and the search engine mayhem are abusive behaviour, even if not abuse of the license.
It's being a dick, deliberately.