No open source about analog-film-emulator HOT 2 CLOSED

@hfiguiere
I do fully understand that the legal concept of fair use does not exist in every jurisdiction. In fact I live in one where it doesn't. The exact words I used are

You are of course free to study the code and takes bits and pieces, I consider this fair use.

In other words I'm not going to sue or complain if anyone uses bits of that code. Yes, I do realize that this might absolutely not be enough to satisfy the contributor agreements of some open source project. This is among the reasons why I also explicitly stated this:

If you have grander plans for it and the lack of a license prevents you from following up on them feel free to contact me.

This is the part I don't get:

Please, consider either making the source code really open source, or hiding it.

Why do you ask me to hide my code? Who exactly would benefit of me hiding the source? I put the code up so people can see how things work and learn from it, I don't see how this is a bad thing.

Now regarding reusing the code:
The reusable part is really trivial code, most operations would be one liners in a more terse programming language. Should you want to reuse it I'm happy to stick a more liberal license to that part of the code.

What I want to prevent is that lazy douchebags just copy my work, ruin it in various ways, taint it with ads and then claim it is their own.

from analog-film-emulator.

If you don't want people to reuse your code, then the best is to keep it to yourself - hence my suggestion to hide it. Saying that one can reuse the code but then can't because the circumstances might not please - being unclear is worse than anything else.

There are licenses that would actually require publishing the source code under most circumstance. Plenty to pick from. Most of them are actually open source - few aren't - and are clear to anyone.

from analog-film-emulator.