alt Hacker News> But a proprietary fork doesn't change anything for permissively-licenced projects either!
It just mostly makes them irrelevant by EEE. A permissive license is simply asking for it.
> But a proprietary fork doesn't change anything for permissively-licenced projects either!
It just mostly makes them irrelevant by EEE. A permissive license is simply asking for it.
This is true in the short-term. One of the points of the article is that, long-term, proprietary forks are prone to enshittification and/or abandonment, while the open fork just keeps chugging along, maturing, and changing maintainers