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I think you might be 100% incorrect with your supposition on businesses and BSD licensing! Businesses love BSD licenses, because they can use the code for any
by blokey 4y ago
I think you might be 100% incorrect with your supposition on businesses and BSD licensing!
Businesses love BSD licenses, because they can use the code for any purpose they need, whether internal use or building something and distributing it.
No one can force them to share any part of their work, or even share anything.
Netflix, Juniper, Apple (and many others) all use BSD derived UNIX components, precisely for that. They contribute back what they want (and mainly what they do jot wish to maintain as a company secret).
GPL-3 is much more complex because it can /require/ you to share code. BSD licenses do not require you to share anything.
Businesses in general do not like ‘requirements’ like that even if only because they have to track them and ensure they do not break any licenses.
I work for a large financial services company, GPL-3 licensed software requires specific approval, AGPL is banned across the board (same as in Google).
BSD and GPL-2 is fully permitted (as is MIT and all the other style licenses)