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Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0 by haberman on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:24PM (#25350090)
> The problem with using a permissive license such as Apache is, anyone can fork the project exclusively under xGPLv3. If that fork becomes more popular, there's no way for the Apache-licensed upstream to merge any patches from the xGPLv3d fork back in.

I'm curious if anyone knows of any cases where this actually happened.

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Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0 by jabl on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:47PM (#25350370)
LibreOffice vs OpenOffice. LibreOffice is, IIRC, under the MPL2, and can take improvements from the Apache-licensed OpenOffice (and has done so in the past, though Apache OpenOffice has been moribound for its entire existence so there's not much to take from there anymore), but Apache OpenOffice can't take improvements from LibreOffice.
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