“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”

Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by cblconfederate on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:52AM (#27745291)

there is value to keeping something public in itself, like with parks and roads. If anything i d say that todays feudal state of tech proves that gpl was right

it s hard to deny that the most-used OSS software, is GPL

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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by paavohtl on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @05:40AM (#27746048)

It's easy to deny, as long as we include libraries in the definition of "software". ZLib is bundled with macOS, iOS, basically every Linux distribution, every game console and even every Windows 10 installation [1] [2]. Same for extremely common libraries like libpng, Curl, SQLite, Boost and OpenSSL.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/products/notices/win

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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by trasz on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @04:07AM (#27745406)

Not necessarily. Linux kernel is GPL, sure, but if you look at eg language runtimes, or various servers, GPL is no longer obviously dominant.

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