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Right, but nothing prevents you from closing the loop. If I (project developer) purchase a copy of their application or convince another customer to help, I can
by Teknoman117 5y ago
Right, but nothing prevents you from closing the loop. If I (project developer) purchase a copy of their application or convince another customer to help, I can then request their changes and either merge it or cherry-pick parts of it into upstream if I wanted to.
None of the licenses require work on the part of downstream to collaborate with upstream, only that a user of downstream can get the changes made to components the license applies to.
- pabs3 5y agoCorrect, but it isn't always possible to do that; it might be too expensive, the company might be picky about its customers, existing customers might be unwilling to share the competitive advantage they paid for, the company might have a grsec style "we don't give updates if you share the code" setup, etc.