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Person A taking a code base private that solves 95% of their problem and refusing to release fixes-and-features upstream hurts the entire community.
by necheffa 4y ago
Person A taking a code base private that solves 95% of their problem and refusing to release fixes-and-features upstream hurts the entire community.
- naikrovek 4y agohow? exactly how? that person would not have even made the changes to GPL code. I won't work on ANYTHING GPL or AGPL because I don't want to be forced into doing anything. so how does that hurt the community? you're claiming ownership over code I haven't even written, now?
- bheadmaster 4y ago> how so? Three words: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
- naikrovek 4y agono, that's a straw man. you're making up events that are not part of this and acting as if they necessarily occur. they do not.
- bheadmaster 4y ago> you're making up events that are not part of this Part of what? You've asked how does person not contributing changes upstream hurt the community. I gave an example of a real-world scenario which has happened with permissive software many times. How is it a strawman?