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Merging bcachefs

Merging bcachefs

Posted Jun 19, 2023 12:37 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Merging bcachefs by developer122
Parent article: Merging bcachefs

> Hard to call it "GPL hostile" when any work from BSD etc can get stolen by linux but never contributed back.
> If you want to be rude like that.

Let's stick to facts even if one wants to be rude. Nothing has been "stolen" by anyone because no free and open source license requires anyone to contribute anything back, especially permissive BSD licenses. The strong copyleft licenses can only mandate the changes be made public under the same license.

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Merging bcachefs

Posted Jun 20, 2023 14:00 UTC (Tue) by Baughn (subscriber, #124425) [Link]

The whole point of BSD / MIT licenses is, you're saying you're okay with people taking your stuff and giving nothing back. If you don't want that to happen, put it in the license! Which, um, that's what the GPL license *does*.

I simply don't understand people who license their work BSD, and then go "No, we meant for you to act as though it's GPL!"


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