@Klear@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoThe signatures are still coming and it's already making an impactlemmy.worldimagemessage-square201fedilinkarrow-up11.59Karrow-down124
arrow-up11.57Karrow-down1imageThe signatures are still coming and it's already making an impactlemmy.world@Klear@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square201fedilink
minus-square@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoWhat? There’s a big difference between “legal to sell as a compiled binary” and “legal to release as source”.
minus-square@SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months 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@SheeEttin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months 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.