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Re:Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, bu... by Animats on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:15PM (#18738217)
If Linux was MIT-licensed, there would be proprietary "Linux with Oracle extensions" and "Linux with Microsoft extensions". They'd cost money, wouldn't operate without the the closed source parts, and would be incompatible.

Engulf, extend, devour.

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Re:Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, bu... by nickpsecurity on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:05AM (#18739218)
Oh no, it would've been worse from the fact that Microsoft and Oracle used BSD code in their proprietary OS's whose code they certainly didn't share. Plus, all the money they made let them fight against software freedoms with monopolistic schemes, lobbying, and lawsuits. It's much worse than just an open product with extensions.
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Re:Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, bu... by speedplane on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:07AM (#18739223)
This already exists... Android is MIT licensed and nearly every cell phone vendor has incompatible proprietary extensions.
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Re:Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, bu... by nickpsecurity on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:45PM (#18741574)
It's Apache 2.0 and it did lead to incompatible, proprietary extensions:

https://source.android.com/setup/start/licenses

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