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Honestly I'm pretty annoyed by the "how dare you give the source away under other terms than the ones I would prefer"-type reactions that crop up from time to time. It's an incredibly entitled attitude and is not a good look for the open source community in general.

Like by all means, share code with GPL or Apache or MIT or whatever, but don't get mad when someone selects another license, including non-free ones with weird incompatibilities.



Those kinds of complaints are indeed entitled. At the same time, there's no problem pointing out that fewer people and organizations can select a dependency with an unconventional, unknown license.

You're welcome to license your projects however you see fit. But when you get to a point that no one is using your stuff, you have to be ready to hear "it's the license."


Your comment is “how dare you complain about licensing”. What you are responding to is “huh, weird license, won’t use, that’s a shame”.




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