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But 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
by Expurple 1y ago
But 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