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0 pointsandybak11mo ago0 comments

> Do you enjoy your project getting forked, walled off and exploited for profit by someone who has never done you any good?

By far the biggest risk for most projects is "nobody notices it and nobody uses it".

And if someone "takes" your project and uses it - you've usually still got it. Software is funny like that.

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koiueo11mo ago

If the project is good, the license is hardly ever an obstacle for adoption.

At least I can't recall any such cases.

Do you have any examples?

andybakOP11mo ago

Yes. GPL libraries especially.

My app project is Apache for historical reasons and can't be changed. https://github.com/icosa-foundation/open-brush/actions

(and I'm not sure if I would move to GPL if I could but that's a separate discussion)

I regularly come across interesting libraries that I can't use (half of CGAL for example)

KTibow11mo ago

If it's GPL-like its usage would be mostly confined to open source projects.

That's the whole point. If you build something on top of open source code, your code should be open source too.

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