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No, the evil of pretending to be open source and pro community, but only really caring about $£€.
by andrewshadura 6y ago
No, the evil of pretending to be open source and pro community, but only really caring about $£€.
- pjmlp 6y agoIf the community chooses MIT/BSD inspired licenses, they don't care about such companies coming into action.
- josephcsible 6y agoHow often does the community choose a non-copyleft license? What I always see is a company choosing a non-copyleft license.
- spijdar 6y agoI'm a sample size of one, but I often pick a permissive BSD/MIT license for the personal software I develop, and at times will pick BSD-licensed over GPL-licensed software. I prefer the brevity and clarity of the shorter licenses, personally. I've also found that, sometimes, if there are two similar projects with a BSD vs GPL split, the BSD project tends to be more pragmatic and focused on the product/code more, while GPL projects err towards ideology, possibly at the cost of functionality. OpenSSH vs lsh as an example.
- pjmlp 6y agoAll the time, in the OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD ecosystems. In fact, being anti-GPL has become kind of fashionable, so there you have it.