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Sure, just like the BSD and MIT and Apache licenses died, since they allow people to take the software and distribute it under the GPL.


No, there's a difference. BSD, MIT and Apache (permissive licenses) are generally used when the provider doesnt care how the end result is used. So, even if other people relicense their code containing Apache licensed part, it doesnt change the business model of that code.

In contrast, affero style copyleft licenses are used often specifically to support a business model which allows contributors to take changes from other people back into their code. And an uncaring party can take EUPL code, relicense it under AGPL and now, the original party cannot use the AGPL code.

Linus made the same argument for not having GPL 2.0 or later for linux kernel.




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