Post #507903

2026-03-03 16:24 UTC

I understand that BSD see closed source as something cool ‘You understand’? Where did you get that idea? The argument is not, and was never, that closed source is cool. The argument is that strong copyleft, while based on a noble goal, ends up hindering development: Here’s OpenBSD’s take on it. (CTRL+F for GPL).

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@grue@lemmy.world 2026-03-03 16:25

If that’s not the argument, then the alternative is that they’re hopelessly naive.

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@mlxdy@lemmy.world 2026-03-03 20:58

So if they see closed source source as something not cool why they allow to close their source code? Of course, strong copyleft licenses sometimes can hindering development for example GPL and CDDL license conflict don’t allow adding ZFS support to Linux Kernel. But it will not help with development when corpos are more taking than giving to project. Just look where’s Linux and where’s BSD - you can see how GPL hinder that development. And why they see GPL license unacceptable in commercial use? For me unacceptable is to close source code, no matter if it’s for commercial use or not. For me open source is alternative for that shitty closed source commercial software. If I’ll try to make my own open-source commercial product based on BSD license it would be impossible. Competitor with more money for marketing will just take and close my source code, add few improvements then sell it as own product. Why I would like to risk that?

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@aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 2026-03-07 19:45

They say that. But the proof really isn’t in the pudding for me. We contribute and donate to OSS projects at work, and it doesn’t even factor into our decision process if the project is BSD or GPL licensed. We also regularly rely on both BSD and GPL based solutions and projects, and will suggest patches to upstream projects in specific cases. We sometimes don’t do this if it’s BSD, because our derivative works can be made to be more specific to us, and honestly it takes time out of internal projects to do so. One license we absolutely don’t touch is BUSL.

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