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No. Like BSD and MIT it cannot protect from prorietization, tivoization and SaaS. You need GPLv3 or AGPL for that.
by goodpoint 5y ago
No. Like BSD and MIT it cannot protect from prorietization, tivoization and SaaS. You need GPLv3 or AGPL for that.
- whimsicalism 5y agoGplv3 doesn't protect against saas
- goodpoint 5y agoThat's why I wrote AGPL in the sentence.
- whimsicalism 5y agoYes, but your sentence suggests either of those would be protective against all of the former.
- skinkestek 5y agoIt is a bit more nuanced than that: The way you wrote it makes it sound like someone can make the project proprietary over night. They cannot and I wish GPL people would stop pretending. Whoever has a copy of the repo or even a snapshot of the source can continue using and developing it under the original license. What one, strong contributor can do is make a proprietary fork and stop contributing towards the original open source one, possibly dumping prices and thereby starving the original project of code and donations.