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Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by adamson on Saturday June 01, 2019 @04:12PM (#20071366)
Sure, but in this case e.g. GPL vs BSD is only marginally relevant (any modification needs to be GPL in the GPL case) to the particular case of selling OSS software as SaaS since either license lets you package and sell the bare software.
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Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by Drdrdrq on Saturday June 01, 2019 @04:39PM (#20071555)
This is exactly it. GPL worked in the past, but if we take a look at Android (which is based on Linux) we can see that it failed to protect users' freedoms completely.
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Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by AnaniasAnanas on Saturday June 01, 2019 @06:22PM (#20072062)
Something that GPLv3 would have prevented.
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Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by klipt on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:16PM (#20073041)
Then Android would probably have just based off BSD like iOS did.
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