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Copyleft Is Dying

5 pointsby stargraveover 3 years ago

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Juliateover 3 years ago
My _eyes_ are dying.<p>Thanks reader view!<p>One point that doesn&#x27;t get discussed here is that today, a copyleft-licensed project has little impact, unless it already has a massive amount of code that&#x27;s difficult to replicate: with more developers today than 20 years ago, it becomes more of a possible and desirable option to fully clone&#x2F;rewrite something (with a twist&#x2F;different marketing angle) if there is some resistance in the initial project, and there is enough capital&#x2F;will&#x2F;time to invest into remaking it.<p>It does not gravitates around the license alone, but also how the collaboration works (how are contributions, communication, marketing, funding managed?).