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Can you give an example of a non-copyleft open source product where the major improvement is proprietary?
by dnautics 6y ago
Can you give an example of a non-copyleft open source product where the major improvement is proprietary?
- rickbutton 6y agonginx
- dnautics 6y agoSorry, I wasn't aware. What's the major improvement?
- kevincox 6y agohttps://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/ https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/ Although this is probably not the best example because this is sold by the company that largely funds the open source project. Although that is a big conflict of interest.
- tick_tock_tick 6y agoEverything in the Plus category. https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/#compare-versions https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx/#compare-versions
- pornel 6y agoCloudflare-nginx has much improved HTTP/2 support: https://blog.cloudflare.com/nginx-structural-enhancements-for-http-2-performance/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/nginx-structural-enhancements-fo...
- sisu 6y agoWine used to have some proprietary forks such as Cedega before they switched from MIT to LGPL.
- fooker 6y agoZFS was proprietary for several years.
- mac01021 6y agoBSD -> Mac OS?
- snuxoll 6y agoAll the bits for the core of the system are open, it’s just not very exciting without the proprietary bits like WindowServer, AppKit, etc. - all of which would have been equally easy to keep closed if much of Darwin was based on GPL’d projects.
- heavyset_go 6y ago> All the bits for the core of the system are open No, some bits are open, and some bits track what's actually being shipped. Much of what is open sourced lags behind what is running on end user machines by several years. iOS modifications to XNU and Darwin were never made open source. Apple is also dropping GPL internals in favor of open source but not copyleft licenses so that they don't have to release source code changes to the software they release.