minus-squareteri@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•How do you, or do you vet if a software will paywall features or "enshittify"?linkfedilinkarrow-up19·6 hours agoGreen flags: copyleft license (GPL or better AGPL) + they accept contributions without contributor license agreement code written by many people who personally own the copyright active community Yellow flags: permissive license business model which can’t be really be sustainable with a shit-free product Red flags: VC funding (implies enshittification in future because of profit maximization) proprietary license project does not take contribution from the outside or asks to transfer copyright or sign some document (CLA) linkfedilink
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