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But with GPL you are warranted the freedom to fork and even build your own company on top of that. Look at MariaDB. It was forked from MySQL once oracle decide

But with GPL you are warranted the freedom to fork and even build your own company on top of that. Look at MariaDB. It was forked from MySQL once oracle decided they didn't want to invest heavily on a competitor from their product. In the same vein Percona built a succesful product and company on top of MySQL

slaymaker1907 2y ago
After all the fiascos of companies changing the license on stuff, I’m a fan of what Linux. No copyright assignment and lots of contributors so relicensing is nearly impossible.