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> The primary advantage here is big tech employees can safely [...] contribute to these tools without fear of upsetting some internal lawyers Doesn't GPL do th
by blueflow 2y ago
> The primary advantage here is big tech employees can safely [...] contribute to these tools without fear of upsetting some internal lawyers
Doesn't GPL do that better by mandating that changes must be accessible to the public? Like, if an employee worked out some patch, it would be a violation of the license to not make it accessible to the public.
- surajrmal 2y agoNo, because the fear of possibly not complying is enough to stop folks from even getting near it. I would argue that's worse for the ecosystem.