A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it’s a copyleft license they can’t just outright steal it.
Company: “buy this code from us”
Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.”
Company: Vaderno.wav
Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don’t know it’s there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn’t follow the terms of the license, and you’re set for life.
Dual licensing is a thing, so it’s not 0€$£. Also if they didn’t care for the license, it’s probably also not crediting you for your work, so your software isn’t even better known.
A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it’s a copyleft license they can’t just outright steal it.
All the big tech companies are built on open source projects… No idea what the guy you replied to was on about.
Any useful thing you code will be used to feed the beast.
Usually companies avoid GPL code like a plague
That’s where the magic plagiarism LLM comes in to launder the code.
Company: “buy this code from us” Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.” Company: Vaderno.wav
If the code is GPL they’ll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though
Yep, corporate software developer here and they’re scared shitless of incorporating anything gpl’d.
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But they can, and do.
Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don’t know it’s there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn’t follow the terms of the license, and you’re set for life.
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If you have a slam-dunk case, you can usually find a lawyer who’s willing to take their pay out of the winnings.
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Dual licensing is a thing, so it’s not 0€$£. Also if they didn’t care for the license, it’s probably also not crediting you for your work, so your software isn’t even better known.
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I was referring to AI scraping.
wait… it will be a matter of national security and like you know “you and what army”
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