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Akseli :quake_verified: :kde: (aks@scalie.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 09:28:33 JST Akseli :quake_verified: :kde:

Good story why permissive licenses like MIT should not be encouraged https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/
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  Getting Forked by Microsoft
  
  Three years ago, I was part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters for end user customers. A main source for downtime in customer environments occurred when image registries went down. The traditional way to solve this problem is to set up a stateful mirror, however we had to work within customer budget and time constraints which did not allow it. During a Black Friday, we started getting hit with a ton of traffic while GitHub container registries were down. This limited our ability to scale up the cluster as we depended on critical images from that registry. After this incident, I started thinking about a better way to avoid these scalability issues. A solution that did not need a stateful component and required minimal operational oversight. This is where the idea for Spegel came from.
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  Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 13:46:28 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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  @aks Except if they don't respect MIT why would they respect any other licence? (Specially as the GPL gets broken on a regular basis as well)
  
  > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
  > included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  
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  Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 16:23:29 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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  @aks Except that no matter how many clauses there is, if there's no enforcement of the license it's effectively just a gentleman's agreement, and companies like Microsoft have no honor.
  
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  Akseli :quake_verified: :kde: (aks@scalie.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 16:23:31 JST Akseli :quake_verified: :kde:
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  @lanodan might as well have stronger clause to stand on and not throw hands in air, giving up
  
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  Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 16:28:12 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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  @aks I'm not saying you need to give up.
  I'm saying they needs to be enforced, regardless of the choice of the license (although well if you pick something like 0BSD then there's nothing to enforce).
  
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  Akseli :quake_verified: :kde: (aks@scalie.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Apr-2025 16:28:14 JST Akseli :quake_verified: :kde:
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  @lanodan i agree with you but also i am not willing to give up
  
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