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Re:Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsear... by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:46AM (#25938666)
That doesn't sound quite right: MIT/BSD licenses are GPL compatible; you could trivially release MIT code under the GPL. I believe that's what https://www.hyperbola.info/ is doing, for example.
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Re:Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsear... by temp667 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:47PM (#25945587)
It's compatible, but if Postgresql wanted to go harder copyleft and switch the license for future releases, they'd need to get pretty broad agreement, and that would be difficult, there are a lot of corps / enterprise players in the ecosystem, and things like (a)GPLv3 are often totally banned. Is GPLv3 software even allowed in the Apple iphone App Store? The Windows Phone app store?
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