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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Commented link: Open source licensing and why we're changing Plausible to the AGPL license</h1>
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2020-10-23
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/links/">#links</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/licenses/">#licenses</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/plausible/">#plausible</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/agpl/">#agpl</a>
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<p>Plausible is a competitor for Google Analytics, without the need of exposing
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your visitors data to some company. And recently they <a href="https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses">changed their license to
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AGPL</a>, where they explain why.</p>
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<span id="continue-reading"></span>
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<p>But while I admit that I'm not a fan of the tone of "COMPANIES WILL STEAL YOUR
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CODE!", there is another point one must think: What if someone acts as a
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gateway of your project to some users? Will they ever know there is someone
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else working on it? What about improvements? Don't you want people using <em>your</em>
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product to get the best experience?</p>
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<p>Sure, you can ignore these problems and just don't care about what people do.
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What if a company takes your work and get some money from it? You don't care.
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Ok. But this gives me the impression that you don't care about what you did.
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You don't care about your product. If you don't care, why should I? Why should
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I care about you, in the first place?</p>
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<p>(Ok, I know: I'm being mean. Whatever.)</p>
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<p>But that's the thing, isn't it? I mean, I wrote some software. I like it. It
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solves my problem. I expect people to like it too. I just don't want a faceless
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entity to come around, pick my software, do some changes and lock their users
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into their system -- something that I, inadvertently, helped build. <em>I locked
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people into some product that they have no idea they could just move their data
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out of it</em>.</p>
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<p>"Not everybody can program, so who cares?" Yes, not everybody can pick whatever
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script in Python or Rust or C or Java I wrote and change to make it fit their
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needs -- heck, think about someone wanting to making a change in Firefox. But
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everybody knows someone that can program. They can ask that person to change
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that. They can <em>pay</em> that person to change the program to fit their needs. But,
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for that, they need to have access to the code. If the faceless entity picks
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the code, makes changes, lock people and my license doesn't prevent them from
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doing it so, I'm part of the problem.</p>
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<p>No size fits all in software. We can fit a large number of people, but not all.
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But we can give the tools to let people make it fit their size.</p>
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