| ▲ | bigstrat2003 a day ago | |
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 5 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 14 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. | ||