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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by donkeybeer on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:24PM (#27751606)
It seems such bsd people then don't believe in the power granted by the bsd license to others using it as they wish to. Ironically. May I suggest GPL for their next project?
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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by nmz on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:35PM (#27755254)
Whining is not illegal, if you can whine about a license change, you should.
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Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases... by donkeybeer on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:46PM (#27757127)
But by the very act of making their code bsd, they have removed any valid excuse to whine. Anything that happens is just a natural consequence of their decision: whether that be someone making bank on your code without giving you any of the changes back or GPL projects GPLifying a fork of you.
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