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Bruce Perens proposes draft Post-Open Zero Cost License (www.theregister.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] moonpiedumplings 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What stops companies from having a shell corporation use the code, and then that shell company rents "services" at a very low cost to a large corp?

I'm thinking something of the opposite if what Google does, where Alphabet (""located"" in Ireland) rents the Google logo to Google, allowing Google to say that their revenue is much less than it actually is.

EDIT: After some research, it seems that they stopped doing that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/01/google-says-it-will-no-longer-use-double-irish-dutch-sandwich-tax-loophole

But a similar scheme being applied to this license does concern me.

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 6 months ago

I share the concern. However, just because things are hard doesn't mean they shouldn't be done. The current free-loading situation of mega-corps is disgusting and if that can be deterred, stifled, or hamstrung, I'm for it. The solution cannot be perfect because legal code is just like code: never perfect. There will always be a loophole somewhere, it just shouldn't be made extremely obvious and easy to find. The harder it is to circumvent, the better.

P.S Fuck Google regardless

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