Mastodawn

VM (Vicky) Brasseur Oct 16, 2023

IF your product is available under an #OpenSource license and some other company uses it to create a more compelling product offering than your own,

THEN the problem is **not** the license or open source, it's that your company is failing at doing #business as well as your competitor is.

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Ogogon !!!

Oct 16, 2023

@vmbrasseur If my program is distributed under the GPL license, then neither it nor its elements may be used to create any products that are distributed as part of a business relationship. If we are talking about another open and free product, then no one will object.

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Janne Moren

@ogogon @vmbrasseur
Nope. I suggest you read the actual license (it's a pretty easy read).

Other people can do whatever they want with your code. The only requirement is that they make the source - including any changes they make - available to their customers under the same licence terms.

Notably, they don't have to make changes available to you (unless you're a paying customer). And they can compete directly with you using your own product.