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License. GNU is copyleft and the new thing is permissive. We might see a fracture open slowly. For me, even AGPL is not enough
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 18d ago
License. GNU is copyleft and the new thing is permissive.
We might see a fracture open slowly. For me, even AGPL is not enough
- zahlman 18d agoOnce they have a more permissive license, cui bono?
- pjmlp 18d agoBusinesses. There is a reason all FOSS OS alternatives for embedded systems like Zephyr, NuttX, FreeRTOS, IDF, Arduino,... are not GPL based, while Google has purged Android and ChromeOS from it, with the Linux kernel being the only GPL piece left.
- 1718627440 18d ago> Arduino,... are not GPL based Arduino is "just" repacked gcc in a nutshell, so it is GPL-based.
- pjmlp 18d agoYou need more than a compiler, so it is complicated, and not pure GPL, https://support.arduino.cc/hc/en-us/articles/4415094490770-Licensing-for-products-based-on-Arduino https://support.arduino.cc/hc/en-us/articles/4415094490770-L...
- 1718627440 18d agoI was only thinking about the software, yes. Also a lot of the "Arduino" libraries are not really owned by Arduino, even if they like to attach themself to it, so while it is true what they write about different licenses of the libraries, this what not what I considered to be part of Arduino itself. I was only thinking of the buildtools they release. While these are board specific, these are often "just" a fork of gcc, board-specific linker/image builders, a flasher and the Arduino-build system. Only the latter is what they actually created (arguable not even that: https://arduinohistory.github.io/ https://arduinohistory.github.io/).