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Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model by trasz on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:05PM (#25349062)
With BSD-style licenses there's still a strong incentive to share code. That's why permissively-licensed projects, from Node, to PostgreSQL, to FreeBSD, work.

With GPL-style licenses, there's an incentive to avoid putting effort into development, and instead undercut other parties who did invest, and then had to share their code.

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Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model by saghm on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:32PM (#25350191)
> That's why permissively-licensed projects, from Node, to PostgreSQL, to FreeBSD, work.

Sure, but there are plenty of copyleft-licensed projects that also work? This isn't a very convincing argument.

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Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model by trasz on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:55PM (#25350482)
Sure, both work. It's a counter-argument to the claim that GPL is somehow superior.
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