Comment by sgarland
3 days ago
Holy shit, what a read. How do people not understand open source licensing? In every license I'm aware of, you don't get to decide whether or not someone else can use your stuff. Nothing stops you from asking, of course, but it just looks bizarre. If you want to control distribution, design a license to do so, or don't release it in the first place.
Odd; the first comment I see from them explicitly mentions that he can't actually stop it due to the license, and it's just a request; per GitHub, that text existed in the first revision of that comment.
> As the author of the package that is being re-packaged here. I'm against it being repacked into here. > While licensing wise I cannot stop you, I do hope you can honor my request.
Yes, I understand that. My point was that’s not how it works; if you want to be able to control distribution, don’t use an OSS license, because it’s just weird to ask someone to not do something you implicitly granted them permission to do.
Its possible to believe both that what he asked for is not reasonable, but also that he has every right to ask for it.
Maintainers have to make decisions about how to handle support burden, and these decisions are completely outside the scope or purview of any license. People who have never been in that position may have a hard time understanding it, but the NixOS maintainers absolutely do understand and that is demonstrated in that thread.
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