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> Whether the new approach works remains to be seen True, I hope it does. > but it likely burned a lot of community goodwill That also remains to be seen. An
by phoronixrly 4y ago
> Whether the new approach works remains to be seen
True, I hope it does.
> but it likely burned a lot of community goodwill
That also remains to be seen. And would it burn less community goodwill to stop developing the project at all?
Also it doesn't really matter if this move burns community goodwill. It's the author's decision to make. Any member of the community is free to fork before the license change, and any member of the community is free to not submit patches upstream.
- naasking 4y ago> Also it doesn't really matter if this move burns community goodwill It could. Burning goodwill is an easy way to incentivise new open source competitors.