• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    This is the reason why I’m not a fan of permissive licenses.

    If Google is the sole copyright holder, a copyleft license would change nothing because they still have the option to change the license going forward.

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      11 days ago

      That is actually a fair point, but I assume out of the millions of lines of code, not all of them come from Google, right?

      That would requiere convincing the copyright holders of those lines, or at least rewrite them. The latter I don’t see it impossible, but it would take time.

      Still, I will always rather a strong copyleft license…