> Does the fact that product XYZ has a BSD-based product reduces or affect the continuity of the opensource project? No, it doesn't. And that is the beauty of B

> Does the fact that product XYZ has a BSD-based product reduces or affect the continuity of the opensource project? No, it doesn't. And that is the beauty of BSD. Some companies build closed source products on it, some companies actually give back contributions (such as Netflix). Its fine either way. The irony of the GPL is that it does not require giving back. The only requirement is to provide source code when you do binary distribution. There is no provision about giving back to the upstream developers. Forced code dumps are not giving back and projects like Linux do not consider them to be a form of giving back. Sending useful patches and responding to maintainer feedback would be giving back. The GPL is no better at obtaining that than a 2-clause BSD license.