Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Even if you're right, it's not what this site is for and destroys what it is for. And you can always make your substantive points without it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I saw someone refer to that as "The GPL is freedom for users, not developers"

Or they could have respected the license of the code they used.

>Open-source licenses are killing open-source

How? If I put my code on GitHub and I don't put an open source license on it, it's not open source, it's proprietary.