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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by bruce343434 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:31AM (#27745197)
Yeah right, you like to make money of off my work that I made available for free? You can buy the commercial license.
Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by epaga on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:45AM (#27745256)
Not at all. I don't feel entitled to anything.

Here's where I think the misunderstanding is, and maybe I should have made this point in my original comment: I do think there can absolutely be cases where a dual license of GPL / commercial can make a ton of sense. I think those cases tend to be for projects like Linux, Blender, etc.

But what I'm saying I personally think is a bummer is that for years, most open source projects - down to even small but useful libraries - were put under GPL simply because it was "the thing to do".

Like Carmack says, in my mind that is a net negative, since these libraries then were not able to be used by projects which were under other licenses, due to their copy-left viral nature.

Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by dendriti on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @04:13AM (#27745436)
We don't know how many projects would never have been written at all without GPL as a license option. Making it difficult to determine whether it's a net negative or not.