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by motorest
406 days ago
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> Of course it is relevant. No, it is irrelevant. Try to think about it for a second. You release a project under a license that grants everyone the right to use it as they see fit, including building a business on it. Everyone starts using the project as they see fit. Do you believe you now have the right to retroactively pull the license on a whim? No, you do not. |
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Yes, it is relevant.
Try to think about it for a second: multiple problems can exist in parallel:
1. Some company uses a permissive licence, sees a competitor making a proprietary product from their base, and starts whining. Too bad, they should have used a copyleft licence from the beginning on.
2. Some company makes a nice product. TooBigTech sees it and builds an alternative (be it a fork or from scratch, I don't care). TooBigTech offers it for free (because they can, because they are too big) and capture the market. The original smaller company dies, because they can't offer their product for free. Now TooBigTech can start enshittifying because they own the market, again.
> Do you believe you now have the right to retroactively pull the license on a whim?
If you own the copyright to the whole codebase, of course you can. All those contributors who signed a CLA and are now whining should think about that.