There is a lot of opposition in the FOSS community for restrictive/protective licenses. And to be fair, this comes from a consistent and entirely logical worldview.
replyThere's a bunch of problems with getting companies to pay for this, too - that sense of entitlement (or even contractual obligation), the ability to control the project with cash, etc.
I don't have any answers or solutions. But I don't think we can hand-wave the problem away.
The problem is that they get away too easily with bugs in their products they ship to customers. If this would come with some penalties, there would be some incentive to invest in security and this would probably often flow back to upstream projects.
replyLike a money-back guarantee?
replyLike you get when you buy e.g. MS products?
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I am not talking about the open-source projects, but the downstream products such as cars that integrate curl.
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