Comment by billy99k

1 year ago

So the can of worms here now shifts to piracy. Whenever it comes up, a large percentage of people here on HN support it. "you wouldn't have purchased it anyway", "the original authors don't lose anything".

The same can be said about using the Apache license and the service here in question. In fact, the difference is that it's completely legal.

The original authors don't lose anything.

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llm_trw  1 year ago

Not sure what piracy has to do with this.

The point is that you've specifically let people do something then when they do it you're upset they did it.

If you don't want them to do it, don't explicitly allow them to do it. There are plenty of licenses which would have stopped this.

  • wheels  1 year ago

    I voted the grandparent up about the license allowing it. But things being allowed isn't a benchmark for them being decent.

    I don't think we should stone adulterers. But I also think cheating on your partner can mean you're an asshole.