• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    It’s generally not great as most non-GPL licenses allow for keeping changes from the public. GPL requires changes being made to GPL source to be released under GPL. Depending on the details some non-GPL licenses allow for creating closed source forks without releasing anything to the public. This is what allows Android OEMs to keep AOSP forks with changes that never see the light of day. In this day and age, seeing what we see with corporations corporating, we probably want more GPL than less. Maybe Rust coreutils are worth the tradeoff, I don’t know.