No, Gumroad Did Not Become Open Source Today (danb.me)

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 3 months ago

Again, these puritan open source defenders. "It's not open source if $bibleQuote". "Just call it source available". And all the other arguments.

From what I gather, the licence is still in the spirit of open source, just not to the letter. It doesn't want large businesses taking the code , making a competitor and nor contributing back.

These open source defenders do not care about developers and their lives. They just want the code be released in a manner that respects their bible, to the letter.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

the licence is still in the spirit of open source

that's the problem. The license is only good in spirit, and simply doesn't work in practice.

For example, a corporation could run a subsidiary business which doesn't make enough money to violate the license, which then rents use of the software to the the big corporation. Google used to use a similar scheme, to shift money around and essentially evade taxes.

Although in a legal system where money is a win button, you can't really win going to win even if they just decided to violate the license.

Anyway, if you don't want big corporations to use it, just use the AGPL.

Google basically bans use of the AGPL internally — you can't even install AGPL apps!