Comment by OnionBlender
4 months ago
Obviously not me, but I remember John Carmack regretting releasing Doom and Quake under GPL instead of BSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack#:~:text=The%20sou...
4 months ago
Obviously not me, but I remember John Carmack regretting releasing Doom and Quake under GPL instead of BSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack#:~:text=The%20sou...
Look into toybox. It's a tiny reimplementation of GNU coreutils that ships in Android.
The author was on the core team for another project in that space (I think busybox). He saw first hand how copyleft sounds good but ends up being lots of friction with no practical benefit, and vowed to public domain all his projects after that. BSD0 is him giving a name to a public domain grant so OSS people could recognize it.
Rob Landley, and the original Busybox author was Bruce Perens, who with Eric Raymond co-popularised Christine Peterson's new term "open source".
https://lwn.net/Articles/202120/
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I think this is the talk I was referring to:
https://youtu.be/MkJkyMuBm3g?si=8OfCdRmS2kmGjIbx