Comment by klardotsh
4 months ago
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"?
Sure! Maybe I'll finally get a v0.99 or a v1.0 together one of these days.