@hexaheximal case in point:
#Copyleft doesn't work in terms of getting #contributions or actual improvements.

One can not really force people to do intellectual labour nor get them to share it!

But don't take my word for it, because @landley has been there and done that as the fmr. maintainer of #BusyBox and nowadays maintains a competing project (#toybox) licensed under #0BSD...

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TBH I'm not against the #GPL, not even #GPLv3 because when you want to commit #AssetDenial it does that fine and I use it for that...

But sadly #FLOSS doesn't exist in a vacuum and as much as I wished #CCSS to never have existed in the first place, it sadly does and worse people often depend on that shite...

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So I do aim to #DoBetter instead...

Another reason why "#PublicDomain" is a problem but #0BSD isn't is because not every juristiction acknowledges or accepts Public Domain.

For example in #Germany, where the head maintainer resides. there is no such thing as "Public Domain" but only "Lapsed Copyrights*".

Otherwise it would be impossible to prosecute authors of obvious #hatespeech, cuz not every place agrees with the U.S. principle of what is essentially "#ConsequenceFreeSpeech", not "#FreeSpeech"...


Again:
We don't make the rules, we've to follow them whether we like them or not!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJkyMuBm3g&t=2107s video via @linuxfoundation feat. @landley

* which hasn't lapsed yet for #SteamboatWillie there because as per bilateral agreements, Copyrights don't lapse till 70 years past the death of the authors and that applies for U.S. works to - in return German Residents don't need to file for Copyright because that's inherently granted at creation and thus also applies in the USA!

@landley The sad part is that you are in fact correct.

The only thing #Copyleft like #GPLv3, #AGPLv3 and espechally #AssholeLicensing of the #SSPL, #RHEL and #grsecurity kind can do is commit #AssetDenial and even that is flaky as one can only put actual #code under a license and not an implementation of something like a #Codec...

...But those are usually covered by #patents and other legalese trolling efforts, like the way #MELP / #MELPe is licensed so everyone who doesn't want to exclusively make a radio for NATO / U.S. DoD has to arrange a licensing deal woth half a dozen tech giants, so #Codec2 had to be made...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-excitation_linear_prediction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_2

As of now I am considering to relicense my content under #0BSD and sinve very few of my projects have any external contributions, this should be trivial to do so.

@geraldew @RTP @linux @torvalds

Being a "universal donor license" would be a reason.

But don't take my word for it, ask @landley on why he left #BusyBox and started #toybox under #0BSD.

TLDW: #Copyleft backfired and made BusyBox notoriously hostile to vendors as well as kinda hurt everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJkyMuBm3g&t=25m27s

The reason why no "applianced" Console runs #Linux is the #GPL, because #PlayStation since the #PS2 and #Nintendo since the #WiiU run #FreeBSD as #Copyleft would be incompatible with their #DRM and subsequent #NDA's as well as contractual secrecy per their vendors & subcontractors...

#Valve and the #SteamDeck aren't compareable to i.e. the #NintendoSwitch because they see it as a tool to increase revenue per #Steam User, not as a means to increase their market share from de-facto to de-jure #monopoly whilst facing stiff competition like #XboxGamePass on the #PC and #Chromebooks as well as #ChromeOS flex running #Android #Games!

@rory That being said, Contributions and Feedback is welcome and as per it's #0BSD license you could even go so far as to fork it and put a #NetBSDor any other #unix-esque #Kernel under it if you so please.

In fact, I'd not be surprised if #toybox + #musl / #FreeBSD is the foundation of the OSes used on the #NintendoSwitch and #Playstation5...

it's just that neither #Nintendo nor #Sony have admitted so and I'm not going to stalk through the mailinglist of toybox when @landley hinted enough.

And yes, after considering the mountain of evidence I decided to choose a #permissive instead of #copyleft license.

In fact, I did choose the same license that @landley chose for #toybox: #0BSD.

https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/main/LICENSE.md

Since #copyleft would not guarantee improvements as can be seen not only from #BusyBox but also @grsecurity and #Viprinet #VPN - #Routers.

["#Viprinux" is a botched and horribly outdated #OpenADK mess based off what they released on their website]...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230331121150/https://www.viprinet.com/en/support/downloads

@Lulukaros @chrisoffner3d @vaartis IOW: #Sony amd #Nintendo chose #FreeBSD because on #Linux they'd likely have to #FLOSS the entire #DRM and #3D stack to the point that it would be trivial to #cleanroom & #blackbox - engineer a compatible system just from the published sourcecode.

That's why #Apple yeeted #bash & #GCC once it went #GPLv3 and #Android yeeted #BusyBox when they did the same and now ise #toybox (maintained by @landley ) released under #0BSD license...