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by we2341 2108 days ago
>All of that developers work on zen would be available to the zig foundation if it were licensed GPL.

False. the changes and the license only need to be extended to Zen's customers. They don't need to be provided back to Zig.

>If it were licensed GPL and they were violating that license they could sue in the legal system instead of writing a blog post with dubious effect.

Suing isn't a good idea even if you have a case. The blog post does more with less effort.

Even if Zig and Zen were GPL the employees agreement can be structured such that his work on Zen can not be used for Zig. There's an FAQ for this sort of stuff: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#DevelopChangesU...

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>>All of that developers work on zen would be available to the zig foundation if it were licensed GPL.

>False. the changes and the license only need to be extended to Zen's customers. They don't need to be provided back to Zig.

Zen makes their system available for free download to the public, thus would be forced to provide source to the public. https://zen-lang.org/ja-JP/download/