Re:Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of ...
by jehb on Friday September 15, 2023 @07:46AM
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And it's at exactly this moment the community would fork the project and development of a free version would continue. This is not a real risk for a community-driven project, only for corporate-driven projects where a single entity owns copyright on the on all or close to all of the codebase.
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Re:Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of ...
by isilofi on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:24AM
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The important distinction isn't who owns copyright. It is rather that there needs to be a community opposed to the license change and able and willing to do the work.
One could even imagine scenarios like an originally MIT-licensed software splitting into a commercial company offering commercial paid licenses, plus a community (or even the company itself) offering a GPL-licensed fork. Of course one could then still maintain an additional MIT-licensed fork, but if the rest of the community is happy with GPL and all the development just happens there, your MIT fork will "starve"...
Re:Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of ...
by hakre on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:45AM
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While I'm able to understand your argument, IMHO the MIT license is not displaying that well. Community is plural, and fork with MIT could be like Windows: Closed source. End of the (fork) line.
Given the project itself is still strong, this might not be a problem, but then I see no reason why it has chosen it in the first place if not for that specific option.