2026-11-10 00:23 UTC
You made a good point about integration. There’s a lot of scenarios where a business might use software as-is, meaning there’s nothing to contribute back. Many libraries are flexible enough a user might never encounter a reason to make changes.
ffmpeg for example is the core of the vast majority of video processing applications. I use it all the time, and have even benefitted from being able to read the source code, but I’ve never had a reason to change it.
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@TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml 2026-11-10 02:31
I’ll go a step farther: plenty of hardware datasheets offer a reference implementation that uses mit licensed software. At some point you’re not even doing unique data plumbing, you’re just following the instructions on the back of the package of a digital shark bite fitting.