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homarptoday at 3:39 PM3 repliesview on HN

RMS promotes GPL, not MIT licensed software.

When a bigger entity (e.g. AWS) decides to undercut the original creator/vendor (e.g. redis,elastic search), MIT code des not help.


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Zigurdtoday at 5:00 PM

RMS would probably agree with you and think that I'm apostate. But there's an open source license for the full spectrum of software authors' preferences. Depending on the circumstances some could turn out to be a poor choice.

I know some lawyers who specialize in these choices. Everyone thinks their choice doesn't smell, but there are the resources to make informed choices.

pjmlptoday at 5:53 PM

Actually dual license, those that want industry friendly license can get as much as they are willing to give upstream.

bigstrat2003today at 4:16 PM

It helps just fine. The original software is still there, available for anyone to use for free. AWS et al can't take that away from us, no matter what they choose to do with their fork.

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