Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi).
We’re doing this to ourselves too, you know.
Unlike regular labor exploitation, where there’s really not much of a choice at all because you have to be part of the labor force to get any income and survive at all…
We’re literally doing this shit for free, people. What’s your excuse?
@zkat I like working for companies that are into open source because I can reuse code between future projects. With closed source I lose all my code if I switch roles. 🤷
Then again I haven't made any hugely popular libraries and have low maintenance costs.
Are you an EU citizen? In that case „you have to give up all your code“ is a convenient lie told to you by capitalists. As EU citizen all you can give, is a comprehensive license to your work. You always own the copyright. Even if paid for the work. If a former employer doesn't want you to use your own work, they have to compensate you. Even after firing you.
Obviously practical issues arise from you not having a comprehensive license for your colleagues' work.
@taschenorakel @zkat In my case I'm in Canada and from what I recall my contracts say the company hiring me owns all output. 😅 That's good to hear that the EU has such laws in place though!
@LovesTha @taschenorakel Got any Canadian labor law / copyright lawyers you'd recommend? 😅
@mauve @taschenorakel @zkat Technically what the law says is/should be more important than the language in your contract. There is rarely any downside to claiming outrageous things in a contract.