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submitted 3 days ago by antifuchs@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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I know copyright isn’t the way to address what’s wrong with tech, but this here is a great way to poison the well for medium-to-large enterprise companies leeching off open source: if your software requires the work to function, it’s entire source code needs to be published.

Considering using this for my more polished stuff just to irk the companies that would otherwise be happy to use it.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you Deploy the Program on hardware (consumer electronics, IoT devices, or cloud infrastructure), you must provide "Installation Information." This includes all authorization keys, cryptographic signatures, or passwords required to install and execute modified versions of the Program on that specific hardware.

That clause would make it impossible to deploy the software as it would grant the world access to your systems.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

…great!