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There are plenty of successful open source projects with permissive licenses. GPL was probably the best license for Linux at a time when the debate was rife wit
by mankash666 10y ago
There are plenty of successful open source projects with permissive licenses. GPL was probably the best license for Linux at a time when the debate was rife with a"winner take all" attitude. Today, maybe a permissive license would have sufficed.
- l2dy 10y agoA permissive license would allow Android phone manufacturers to legally keep their kernel closed-source. Not so good for custom ROM developers.
- mankash666 10y agoEven with a GPL_ed kernel, you need binary blobs for certain firmware and Android drivers. The base kernel is only half the story.