One thing neo-liberals and dictator loving pretend-communists agree on: Reddit is a cesspool.

You cannot excuse what Israel is doing in Palestine by hiding behind antisemitism.

Isn't this not possible considering that the U.S Supreme Court threw out the Chevron Doctrine?

Is this a verification can test?

The problem is it becomes coercive the moment dishonest wording by marketing and the actual product is observed.

Yeah why would anybody agree to make life more difficult merely for moral superiority that doesn't do much?

Just in case it isn't sarcasm: You will more sooner die of heart attack than the milk drinker if you overdo it.

Being good has nothing to do with having to maintain your company's code base that's in Oracle's Java SE 1.6.

You can't just design your way out of a conflict whose solution is to change either the existing system architecture or change Java versions,

both suggestions will get you laughed out of the room.

The history change was probably to avoid violating the LGPL. If any contributors don't agree with the change (or you don't want to do the onerous task of getting consensus as required) you should remove their contributions from the work you make closed source as the contributions still come under LGPL until the original author consents to the change.

Or at least that's what people said here.

Hey, A lot of people spent their precious free time to look at your project, test it out, and talking about it to their colleagues. How are you going to pay us for wasting however many minutes or hours of time spent on your supposedly open source project before you did the bait-and-switch?

(By "you" I meant the developer.)

Read my comment and enlighten all of us on how stealing free testing work from the community under the pretense of "open source" is not entitlement? How is this project going to compensate users for beta testing their software for free?

The fediverse already has a mechanism to guard against some corporation coming in and taking the code from a platform and building a commercial product on top of it - defederation. We don’t need GPL to “protect” us from anyone here

I disagree. The reason GPL works is that legal action (Such as from GNU foundation or EFF) deters bad actors.

The fediverse already has a mechanism to guard against some corporation coming in and taking the code from a platform and building a commercial product on top of it - defederation.

Defederation only helps the corporations: When the corporation comes in, overwhelms the fediverse with their huge network of active instances and then defederate, the only ones holding the bag are the open intances. . It's much easier for a private corporation to get numbers to defederate and come out on top than for open source enthusiasts.

However, there are also many that want to be recognized (financially) for their work. GPL ignores the latter.

If you want to be financially recognized for building on top of other people's open source projects then you should write proprietary code. You shouldn't be allowed to take open source works freely and call the entirety your own. MIT doesn't prevent that from happening. GPL prevents that from happening.

I don’t believe that is the case any more

It's actually really important in the long run. There can never be true open source without GPL or similar legal licenses.