j5155
Joined 4 years ago
Karma
189
Submissions
86
Member since
May 5
Joined 4 years ago
So this would ensure that everyone’s contributions continue to help the wider community. As a side effect, it would also prevent anyone from using your work without releasing the source code for their project or product, benefitting open source as a whole.
The choice is obviously ultimately yours. I personally didn’t realize the benefits of GPL until recently.
I’m also a little confused by what you’re saying here; are you asking whether scraper bots are illegal, or whether they’re immoral/unethical?