That argument can be made for virtually every piece of software. We all build on top of the work of others.

gkbrk 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

BearBlog built on top of the work of others. Now you can't build on top of the work of BearBlog.

KolmogorovComp 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The argument is that why should I be able to use software for free but do not want mine to be used the same way?

So everything should be open source and no one should be able to write software to sell it?

If you want your projects license agreement to be withheld in future projects there is a license for that. Its called copyleft

	▲	1gn15 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		That would be great, actually. AGPL for everything.

account42 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It can and it should.