That companies take and not give back / close up their contributions. In the case of Khtml they had no legal ground, but now with rust recommending MIT/Apache 2.0 they do.
KHTML and WebKit is a historic mess but it’s debatable at best if Apple actually violated license terms. In any case, it shows just how ineffective LGPL is at enforcing the intended contributions from corporate licensees. I’m not getting into this historic mess of a topic with someone who has yet to give a reason why Rust needs to be singled out for being MIT licensed when it was already the de facto default choice for most open source projects before it ever became popular. It’s quite clear to me from the endless brain-dead comments in Lundukes YT channel or in the Phoronix forums, that a vocal minority of the Linux community has a massive hate-boner for Rust and is desperately trying to come up with a valid reason for it. None of these people are actual experts from what I can tell, but boy do they have strong opinions about the programming languages used by the people who do all the work.
That companies take and not give back / close up their contributions. In the case of Khtml they had no legal ground, but now with rust recommending MIT/Apache 2.0 they do.
KHTML and WebKit is a historic mess but it’s debatable at best if Apple actually violated license terms. In any case, it shows just how ineffective LGPL is at enforcing the intended contributions from corporate licensees. I’m not getting into this historic mess of a topic with someone who has yet to give a reason why Rust needs to be singled out for being MIT licensed when it was already the de facto default choice for most open source projects before it ever became popular. It’s quite clear to me from the endless brain-dead comments in Lundukes YT channel or in the Phoronix forums, that a vocal minority of the Linux community has a massive hate-boner for Rust and is desperately trying to come up with a valid reason for it. None of these people are actual experts from what I can tell, but boy do they have strong opinions about the programming languages used by the people who do all the work.
There’s no requirement that a downstream fork needs to contribute their code back to upstream, they just need to release it, and they always did that.