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Re:Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license by josephcsible on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:28PM (#25350889)
Because the BSD license is a permissive/pushover license, which let you relicense other people's work as proprietary. The reason that copyleft licenses like the GPL are better is exactly that they don't allow this sort of behavior.
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Re:Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license by Doctor_Fegg on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:54PM (#25351888)
99% of the code in Mapbox GL was written by Mapbox employees on company time. The GPL would have made no difference.
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Re:Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license by stevage on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @06:05PM (#25352778)
Except in practice, removing that 1% (or getting permission from its contributors) could be extremely complicated.
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