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I wonder how much GPL actually protects against proprietary forks. Aren’t most of these driver vendors in China where Google would have little recourse if GPL i
by runeks 5y ago
I wonder how much GPL actually protects against proprietary forks. Aren’t most of these driver vendors in China where Google would have little recourse if GPL is violated?
- m4rtink 5y agoWell, at least it makes major vendors cooperate - for example a lot of modern Sony PlayStation hardware runs heavily modified FreeBSD, yet anything the project ever got back from Sony is IIRC some multiprocessing improvement patches. Also the multitude of companies contributing together to the Linux kernel are often direct competitors. Yet due to the GPL all their contributions are available to everyone else - so even though you are technically helping your competition, they have to do the same thing for you. With permissive license, you competition can take the code and run with it, never contributing anything back, kinda like how Sony did in the example above.