Sam Knight

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social "sell sunlight to earth"... Like these guys watched breaking bad and thought walter white was the good guy. No awareness of what's coming put of their own mouths.

@jcolag@mastodon.social But, I definitely know I'm in the minority on that point. After trying to get the Linux kernel source code for my Barnes and Noble Nook, I sort of lost all illusions that licenses provide any meaningful rights to the average consumer of a copyrighted work. I decided that all/most of my future stuff would move from something like GPL to something like CC0/public domain, because I feel that if big corps will infringe anyways, why restrict honest folks?

@jcolag@mastodon.social There's a balance I think between mediating the terms of redistribution of your work vs completely barring redistribution of your work; because of what the outcomes are AND whether it works at all in an internet context. I think it's really cool that somebody like Kevin MacLeod is world-renown because of people linking back to his music when they use it, but I also think that "All Rights Reserved" footers don't stop ChatGPT from scraping your page and using it for model training.

@jcolag@mastodon.social Well for me that lineage is secured based on principle. I'll be providing the source and the distribution of the original forever, and keeping up with that, and I'm accountable to that as a person rather than as a legal document. If somebody else wants to sell a modified version of my code for a profit, I don't have lawyer money to stop them, so the license would be no more than a statement of intention. Though, setting that intention isn't nothing.