@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 22 days agoThe signatures are still coming and it's already making an impactlemmy.worldimagemessage-square202fedilinkarrow-up11.59K
arrow-up11.59KimageThe signatures are still coming and it's already making an impactlemmy.world@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 22 days agomessage-square202fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•22 days agoWhat? There’s a big difference between “legal to sell as a compiled binary” and “legal to release as source”.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•22 days agoJust saying, if my highschool programming classes are any indicator, there’s a ton of released binaries out there that use copywritten and otherwise plaigarized code
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•22 days agoAnd that’s one of the big reasons companies don’t even think about open-sourcing their code.
What? There’s a big difference between “legal to sell as a compiled binary” and “legal to release as source”.
Just saying, if my highschool programming classes are any indicator, there’s a ton of released binaries out there that use copywritten and otherwise plaigarized code
And that’s one of the big reasons companies don’t even think about open-sourcing their code.