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Re:Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adwar... by brightlancer on Sunday December 03, 2023 @04:38PM (#38511015)
> GPL, on the other hand, can make it possible for a corp to buy the project and effectively prevent further development, like it happened with MySQL.

That's not correct.

All of the MySQL GPL code was and is free for continued development. The company has no right to stop you or me from continuing to work on it. MariaDB was forked from MySQL and continues to be GPL licensed.

How do you think the GPL "effectively prevent further development"?

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Re:Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adwar... by dun44 on Sunday December 03, 2023 @05:40PM (#38511506)
Oh, sure you can develop it - same as with every other open license, including public domain. But it prevents you from replicating the original business model.
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Re:Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adwar... by notpushkin on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:21PM (#38521804)
Prevents how?
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