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> under one proprietary OS fuchsia and all it's components are licensed under BSD 3 clause, MIT, Apache 2.0
by umren 9y ago
> under one proprietary OS
fuchsia and all it's components are licensed under BSD 3 clause, MIT, Apache 2.0
- jhasse 9y agoWhich means they can fork it anytime into a proprietary one.
- alexvoda 9y agoThey can do that regardless of the license since they own the copyright. As long as they do not accept external contributions or require a CLA it does not matter what license they offer, they can still make future versions proprietary.
- jhasse 9y agoTrue, that's why there needs to be a distinction between "GPL" and "GPL with CLA".
- zer0tonin 9y ago> they do not accept external contributions They do tho.
- Matumio 9y agoEven if they accept contributions normally (e.g. under the same license), the above licences will allow them (or anyone else) to make a proprietary fork.
- sametmax 9y agoMac OS is bad on BSD which is FOSS. Yet...