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"One participant at the retreat noted that permissive licensing was a profound collective mistake, serving as a legal mechanism that enabled the world’s largest
by krupan 3mo ago
"One participant at the retreat noted that permissive licensing was a profound collective mistake, serving as a legal mechanism that enabled the world’s largest corporations to cannibalize volunteer labor..."
Agreed. Linux and GNU did and still do so well because of the GPL. Red Hat built a billion dollar business on GPL software. Tons of Linux developers are payed great salaries by competing corporations that otherwise collaborate on Linux, because none of them are allowed by the GPL to make proprietary changes to the code
- ColdStream 3mo agoIt is amazing how the GPL has inadvertently held up against newer technologies that they couldn't conceive of or just didn't think were a big issue at the time. Also, you can make propitiatory changes if it is contained within the business. Once you make them public is when there is an issue. But I doubt folks would be wanting to keep patching in their proprietary stuff with every new Linux kernel for instance.