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Example 2: Cyanogen. Remember how the internet exploded when Cyanogen tried to commercialize CM (and the Focal controversy), and contributers were angry that Cy
by greenhouse_gas 10y ago
Example 2: Cyanogen. Remember how the internet exploded when Cyanogen tried to commercialize CM (and the Focal controversy), and contributers were angry that Cyanogen made a company "off their backs" which sold a closed-source improvement of CM?
For some reason, had Samsung done the same, everyone would have praised them to the heavens, it would have been "the obvious success of permissive licencing". Now, when a founder and major contributor did the same to his OS project, everyone cried foul.
But Lineage is still Apache2, for some reason.
- Sacho 10y agoErm, weren't the contributors angry because they weren't getting compensation for their GPL-contributed work? > For some reason, had Samsung done the same, everyone would have praised them to the heavens, it would have been "the obvious success of permissive licencing". Do you have an oracle or a time machine to know this?