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Lots of software have been licensed under Apache, BSD and MIT licenses for two decades...why do we need another decade for this doom to arrive and what are the
by jeremyjh 10y ago
Lots of software have been licensed under Apache, BSD and MIT licenses for two decades...why do we need another decade for this doom to arrive and what are the early signs we can see now?
- pjmlp 10y agoBecause LLVM wasn't a thing, nor the ongoing replacement of GPL stack like what Google is trying with Fuchsia. How are you enjoying the PS 4 features that were added to FreeBSD and LLVM? Already updated it with your set of changes?
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- floatboth 10y agoCompanies don't contribute code to FOSS projects because a copyleft license forced them to. (If all they need is to comply with the GPL, they just throw an undocumented unsupported code dump onto their website!!!) Companies contribute code because the upstream project will maintain the code for them! Sony PS4 is a horrible example to cherry-pick. They probably didn't do any serious modifications to anything, they mostly built their stuff on top. A much better example: Netflix upstreaming their reimplementation of sendfile() to FreeBSD. Because it's been upstreamed, they don't have to maintain it for compatibility with other upstream changes anymore, people who make those changes will fix the sendfile() code.
- pjmlp 10y agoThe contributions of companies back to *BSD versus GNU/Linux is the living proof of what would happen if Linus had not chosen a copyleft license. We would still be using Solaris, HP-UX, Aix, Tru64, DG-UX to this day.