2026-09-15 19:00 UTC
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Sure, but how do you get around that high compliance burden, while keeping licensing? As you propose in your original post, being afraid of the community backlash is a good substitute. But it's also something that comes with compliance costs. And possible higher ones, because my guess at least would be that figuring out a community's reaction to some use of the project is going to be a lot more difficult than figuring out the legalese of the GPL and copyright law.
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@mmeier@social.mei-home.net 2026-09-15 19:02
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange All of the incentives are almost always in favour of unethical companies. You can probably make a lot more money as chemical company if you can put your toxic waste onto a ship and dump it at sea without getting found out. But that doesn't mean that the regulations against doing that should be abolished, or are entire ineffectual.