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It kind of defeats the purpose of GPL too. You can't keep future changes to the codebase public and open source since anyone who wants to do so will just not u
by suby 8y ago
It kind of defeats the purpose of GPL too. You can't keep future changes to the codebase public and open source since anyone who wants to do so will just not use your fork, so why bother?
- wongarsu 8y agoOnce somebody contributes to the fork the fork contains code that can't be backported to the MIT licenced version. The hope would presumably be that the GPL version grows faster since the GPL version can merge any change to the MIT version but not the other way around. In practise it wouldn't work all that well unless you pay a development team to push the GPL version significantly ahead, but it's a possibility.