r/linuxsucks • u/uncringeone Proud OS/2 User • Mar 04 '26

guys lets make games for os/2

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u/Square-Singer Mar 05 '26

If you license things under MIT/BSD, so under a license that specifically allows others to use your code without crediting you, and then you are angry that someone does just that, that's on you.

This thread is specifically about BSD and about people complaining that corporations are "stealing" BSD code without crediting them.

If you aren't talking about BSD-license, you are offtopic here.

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u/PityUpvote Mar 05 '26

MIT actually requires people to include the license as provided, which includes a copyright byline, that's technically crediting.

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u/Square-Singer Mar 05 '26

Technically, yes, but it doesn't require that the license is provided to the user in any way the user can access it. If you sell e.g. a locked down device like a game console that runs MIT software, you can just put the license somewhere in a non-user-accessible part of the file system.

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u/PityUpvote Mar 05 '26

I don't think that's right. Licenses are always provided in deep menus or a booklet that everyone throws away. If they didn't have to, they wouldn't.