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by bigstrat2003 21 days ago
> BSD license is unrestricted, it tolerates taking open source and closing it, thus always being at risk of things closing down.

There is no such risk. If someone wishes to make a closed source derivative of the BSD-licensed original, it does not deprive anyone of the original. That remains there, just as open as before.
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kennywinker 21 days ago
It deprive us of their improvements, while they get to build off other people’s work.

With the GPL, if you want to modify, and built on others work, you have to share.

Share and share alike, vs take if you like share if you like.

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pjmlp 20 days ago
It deprives for example the LLVM community to profit from PlayStation compiler optimizations.
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