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The number of BSD code sucked by proprietary code and never returned; causes a great number of rewrites; you won't hear much of them; well because of the closed
by diminish 15y ago
The number of BSD code sucked by proprietary code and never returned; causes a great number of rewrites; you won't hear much of them; well because of the closed nature of proprietary forks. That way BSD licenses are unfortunately not good for the open source ecosystem, but I accept they are good for proprietary projects or patent-users, commercial users.
- moonchrome 15y agoBut the point is that the proprietary code will be proprietary code even if you GPL you just make the company that would use BSD licensed code rewrite it (or steal it since there's no practical way of enforcing it - and unethical company gets rewarded). There is no way to force a company to contribute if it won't/can't. And GPL is all or nothing deal, BSD allows you to upstream selective patches but keep some parts you can't/won't release.