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embedding-shapeyesterday at 1:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Fine, they're leeches.

But of the points is that no-one owes anyone anything, if you use my code I don't owe you support or anything else and by you using it, you owe me nothing either, no money, effort or anything else. Sure, if the maintainer want, it's nice when people fix the issues for the maintainer, as long as they want it, or that people and companies donate when maintainer set that up, but in no way should that be an expectation just because the creator slapped a FOSS license on what they made public. Don't want people to (mis)use, criticize, mangle, transform or copy what you've created? Don't use those licenses then.

This whole "no warranties" and its related intentions goes both ways, intentionally.


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conartist6yesterday at 2:27 PM

Again that behavior is legal but antisocial

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em-beeyesterday at 2:39 PM

if you use my code you owe me to honor my license, unless that licenses explicitly frees you from that obligation.