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Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 08:22:38 No.548306

>fork permissively licensed software

>make tons of improvements

>release forked software under GPL

>nobody uses the original because the forked version is so much better

>original authors get butthurt because it's GPL

Are there any examples of this?

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 08:36:42 No.548307

G4L -- http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/g4l-licensing.html

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 09:52:09 No.548321

This happened back in 2003 when Richard Stallman forked Windows XP and created the Gentoo project.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 09:54:51 No.548323

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Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 13:17:49 No.548372

1: that is not from the author.

2: the issue there is not that the fork is GPL'd, but that is broke the original license.

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