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points by brians 4 days ago | 0 comments

Can you point at projects that got abused that way? I see plenty of things that got written by corps or by conglomerates, many of which landed with Apache. And I see lots of copyleft software that pulls whole systems with it.

What’s something that was released as MIT but, had it been GPL2, would have seeded a community?

[–] Vaushite 3 days ago

Mostly it's not stuff that would've had a community if it was GPL - it's stuff that would've had a community either way, then Amazon took it and made it proprietary and took the community too.

[–] SR2Z 21 hours ago

I don't think it's quite correct to say that Amazon made these projects proprietary. They're perfectly willing to contribute upstream - the issue is they stole the margins from the companies that were trying to offer hosted versions of their products.

IMO this is unfortunate but must be allowed if we want to have truly open licenses.

[–] hkt 4 days ago

In fairness, it is easier to point out has-beens than never-weres.