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Re:Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team by bigstrat2003 on Saturday May 30, 2026 @06:58PM (#48341400)
> BSD license is unrestricted, it tolerates taking open source and closing it, thus always being at risk of things closing down.

There is no such risk. If someone wishes to make a closed source derivative of the BSD-licensed original, it does not deprive anyone of the original. That remains there, just as open as before.

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Re:Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team by kennywinker on Saturday May 30, 2026 @08:40PM (#48342017)
It deprive us of their improvements, while they get to build off other people’s work.

With the GPL, if you want to modify, and built on others work, you have to share.

Share and share alike, vs take if you like share if you like.

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Re:Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team by pjmlp on Sunday May 31, 2026 @10:07AM (#48345805)
It deprives for example the LLVM community to profit from PlayStation compiler optimizations.
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