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0 pointspocksuppet20d ago0 comments

Maybe. Enabling more GPL software to become proprietary isn't exactly a service.

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I think they moved chardet from GPL to MIT? If the maintainer made future versions proprietery, they'd surely be forked and then kicked out of the python package repo?

pocksuppetOP20d ago

That's what MIT does. It lets downstream versions become proprietary.

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0 pointspocksuppet20d ago0 comments

Maybe. Enabling more GPL software to become proprietary isn't exactly a service.

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red_admiral20d ago

I think they moved chardet from GPL to MIT? If the maintainer made future versions proprietery, they'd surely be forked and then kicked out of the python package repo?

pocksuppetOP20d ago

That's what MIT does. It lets downstream versions become proprietary.

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