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

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.