> This is the best kind of open source trickledown.

We shouldn't be depending on trickledown anything. It's nice to see Valve contributing back, but we all need to remember that they can totally evaporate/vanish behind proprietary licensing at any time.

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dymk a day ago | parent | next [-]

They have to abide by the Wine license, which is basically GPL, so unless they’re going to make their own from scratch, they can’t make the bread and butter of their compat layer proprietary

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nextaccountic a day ago | parent [-]

That's why the anti-GPL push is so harmful. Specially in the Rust ecosystem

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bigstrat2003 21 hours ago | parent [-]

There is absolutely nothing harmful about permissive licenses. Let's say that Wine was under the MIT license, and Valve started publishing a proprietary fork. The original is still there! Nobody is harmed by some proprietary fork existing, because nothing was taken away from them.

	▲	nextaccountic 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's harmful to the ecosystem, because the reason so many Linux drivers, and Wine contributions, and a lot of other things are free software today is because of the GPL
	▲	gpderetta 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A decade or two ago Wine was on permissive license (MIT I think). When proprietary forks started appearing, Codewavers (which employs all the major Wine contributors) relicensed it as GPL.

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stavros a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How? It's GPL.

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jact a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Can it vanish behind proprietary licensing? Pretty sure most of Valve’s stuff is under GPL so they can’t exactly evaporate that away.