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Some people always forget that GPL is about the end user's rights, not developer's rights. If a fortune 500 re-implements some GPL library to make proprietary,
by throw_m239339 1y ago
Some people always forget that GPL is about the end user's rights, not developer's rights. If a fortune 500 re-implements some GPL library to make proprietary, then by all means. It changes nothing for the GPL code, it's still GPL and its license should guaranty user's rights.
- Expurple 1y agoBut a proprietary fork doesn't change anything for permissively-licenced projects either! The open original is still available, you can still use it and fork it. If it's a popular project, a community-maintained fork will always happen. As a user, permissive licences give me enough freedom.
- ZoomZoomZoom 1y ago> But a proprietary fork doesn't change anything for permissively-licenced projects either! It just mostly makes them irrelevant by EEE. A permissive license is simply asking for it.
- Expurple 1y agoThis is true in the short-term. One of the points of the article is that, long-term, proprietary forks are prone to enshittification and/or abandonment, while the open fork just keeps chugging along, maturing, and changing maintainers
- codeguro 1y agoSome people also forget that end users are also developers themselves. GPL helps everyone in this way.