Comment by lrvick

4 months ago

Just tell them to fork it. Done. No need to take any grief you do not want.

Probably a bit rude, but maybe we can all agree to accept "fork off" as an acceptable, concise, and descriptive answer to unwanted requests.

  • Self-plug for a tongue-in-cheek license I wrote to say exactly that, for exactly this reason :) https://codeberg.org/klardotsh/fork-off-public-license

    Fully agreed. FOSS maintainers don't owe you anything. You can ask for whatever you want, politely, but accept no or "maybe when I have the spoons, which may be never" as an answer, and don't push.

    • > If you've received source code with this license attached, you are free to build, run, and/or redistribute it.

      Maybe insert a few more rights here, like "modify"?

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