Boo hoo, right? I fucked up and got fucked over. It's the Silicon Valley way isn't it? First world problems in the extreme? It hurts, a lot. I lost a lot of friends, and I'm truely sorry to everyone I let down. I wish I had made different choices and trusted different people (especially one in particular early on), but all I care about now is figuring out what to do next.
This guy pretty much made that rom initially kind of sad what happened to him.
Not really. When he decided to go commercial, he burned a LOT of people. He basically got what was coming to him.
He also blames the cofounder for everything that went wrong. Not his own incompetence or community pushback, just the cofounder.
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Regarding others software it gives you the right to use their software with no cost providing you are equally free with the fruits of your own labor. Obviously you might not agree with this but what I don't understand is why you have such a caustic attitude.
What people commonly seem to believe is that the gpl magically sticks other software because you included gpl code. What actually happens is that you can't legally take other peoples code without following the license. Try this with proprietary software sometime. You will be sued to extinction. If one of your employees includes gpl code in your product you will likely be respectfully asked to either gpl the other code or remove the gpl code and be given ample time to do either.
You are 100% able to replace the code you never had a right to and move on the gpl doesn't and can't magically adhere to your code thus calling it "cancer" is silly.
Whether you agree with what that virus is propagating or not is a separate discussion.
My personal experience working in this industry for 30 years is that the GPL (and even some of its derivatives) has been pretty much universally banned in every single company I've worked at or know of.
No more contagious than the license you're probably imposing on your clients.
You have to make that trade willingly. You can't be infected. I don't think that you have thought this through and invite you to do so.
I'm an OEM, I want to put WordPerfect on my computer, WordPerfect sued me. WaaHaa.
2. He tried getting some GPL software relicensed as Apache under false pretenses.
But this is what confuses me. If you don't want this happening, why license your code as Apache?
If Samsung would have done this, this would have been hailed as a success of non-copyleft licenses (like when MS used BSD's network stack). Why do they have a problem when a core dev does is?