Redox OS elects its first Board of Directors

I_like_cats, 11 months ago

Damn why does it have to be MIT licensed though? Didnt they learn anything from the history of Linux and BSD?

jesus, 11 months ago

I read somewhere that BSD was hurt by the confusing Unix lincensing status at the time Linux was growing in popularity.

tyo_ukko, 11 months ago

I know very little about this, care to elaborate?

Octorine, 11 months ago

I think they just mean that Linux is gpl and the most popular os in the world and bsd isn’t and isn’t.

tyo_ukko, 11 months ago

Ah ok, and I suppose the reason is that GPL is more permissive than MIT? Sorry, can't remember the ins and outs of these licenses by heart..

Vorpal, 11 months ago

Quite the opposite, GPL is copyleft, while MIT is permissive.

tyo_ukko, 11 months ago

Ah yes, of course that way around. Makes sense, thanks!

Aloso, 11 months ago

And are you sure the license is the sole reason for that? With a sample size of 2, this correlation might very well be coincidence. I'm not intimately familiar of the history of Linux or BSD, so I might be off base, but I don't think a permissive license like MIT prevents a project from being widely adopted and becoming successful.

Octorine, 11 months ago

I’m pretty sure the license isn’t the sole reason for that, but that’s what I think the commenter meant.

boonhet, 11 months ago

Isn't that the entire Rust ecosystem philosophy? Permissive licensing so it can be used for commercial projects by third parties.