That is to say, companies, which release their tooling as "open-source" (to offload the burden of support on the "community") should push for strong copyleft before anyone else. And they should not be scared by the complexity of #GPLv3 or something: they deal with the legal system and complex terms all the time (unlike the individual employed developers).
Yet, they seem to release everything under BSD/MIT, why?
Notices by Andrew Miloradovsky (amiloradovsky)
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Andrew Miloradovsky (amiloradovsky)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2019 16:22:42 UTC Andrew Miloradovsky -
Andrew Miloradovsky (amiloradovsky)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2019 16:17:21 UTC Andrew Miloradovsky I honestly don't understand why, if ever, businesses prefer to release software under permissive licenses:
- In this case their competitors may just take it, build something on top of it, and sell it, yet never give anything back to the project. So what was the reason to release it for the company? (Remember, businesses are always selfish.)
- While, if this is some kind of #copyleft, their competitors may use the software, and adapt it for their needs, but not sell it as a binary blob.
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Andrew Miloradovsky (amiloradovsky)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 05:40:45 UTC Andrew Miloradovsky Tarballs, the ultimate container image format
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/tarballs-the-ultimate-container-image-format/ #Guix
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Andrew Miloradovsky (amiloradovsky)'s status on Sunday, 05-Aug-2018 19:03:53 UTC Andrew Miloradovsky I just thought I should stick couple books on the topic here, in case somebody is interested and/or for future references:
• Game Theory (Open Access textbook with 165 solved exercises)
Giacomo Bonanno
(Submitted on 21 Dec 2015)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06808
• Game Theory, Second Edition, 2014
Thomas S. Ferguson
Mathematics Department, UCLA