Comment by brookst
1 year ago
I knew door holding was weak, but I think the principle holds. To me, it is reasonable to release under MIT with expectation of helping lots of people, and also to expect (not require) some credit if a notable company adopts kit and kaboodle.
Door holding falls under a social contract.
So does saying thanks. That was my point :)
I guess I kind of disagree. Some projects might pull in 50-800 deps, and then they will run on servers with utilities written by folks. Who are you supposed to thank and who not? You could literally thank thousands of people after writing a ten-line Python script.
I like that the Kagi folks stepped up and thanked you when you requested it, and I like that you wrote this code and made it available. But going around the internet trying to get explicit thanks seems more like the norm breaking here.