Klear@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoThe signatures are still coming and it's already making an impactlemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square178fedilinkarrow-up11.38Karrow-down119
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minus-squarewizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·18 hours agoWhat? There’s a big difference between “legal to sell as a compiled binary” and “legal to release as source”.
minus-squareSlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 hours 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-squareSheeEttin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 hours 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.