License stuff came up the other day. Got me wondering.
Could I use something like the mit or GPL license, but add a requirement that anyone that uses the software had to send me a pic of their butthole?
What is the use case for this GPL + bhole license?
Memes mostly. It world also need to have an age of majority clause.
Then if the library actually gets picked up somewhere it would be a good extortion tactic.
Wow, I’ve definitely seen that before, but I never realized how wild that is. So many companies will start drooling like a dumbass when anything contains the GPL.
So, it’s not like they can’t ever use GPL software, most do use Linux knowingly or unknowingly. But if you use GPL software in a way the legal department hasn’t seen before, they’ll always feel uneasy about it.
Frankly, I’m surprised that Java gained any traction in the corporate world at all, then.
The original version of Java was proprietary. Sun later open-sourced large parts of it but they kept selling a version of Java with a proprietary license. There were also random kerfuffles over the years with IBM and Red Hat who wanted to sell open-source Java into large organizations without giving a cut to Sun/Oracle.