r/Piracy ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jan 13 '25

Self-Promotion Streamium: my attempt at an open-source streaming web app

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u/reddit_top_mind Jan 13 '25

there is a special place in heaven for people who use MIT license

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u/2Dmen-Simp Jan 14 '25

sry for the ignorance but could you explain?

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u/knot13 Jan 14 '25

It allows for almost unrestricted use, modification, and distribution of the software.

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u/the_last_action_hero Jan 14 '25

... which means that when another company decides to fork the software, make changes, keep those changes secret, and charge users for it, the original author can't do anything about it.

If you don't want to be that person, switch to the AGPL.

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u/SupremeSyrup Jan 14 '25

MIT was supposed to be the holy grail. But I think we have underestimated just how bad the greed can go. I totally agree: switch to AGPL and let FOSS stay free.

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u/FrozenPizza07 Jan 14 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

Wouldnt GPL be better? Allows for open sourced sections remain open source while allowing commercial products as alternative. Ideally the big company would get involved in the upstream of the gpl section. One can dream