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You're arguing my point here - most people don't care about the code - they care about the derived work - so non-copyleft licenses serve them even better because they allow for more use cases (more forks). Even if my fork is commercial if you're willing to pay for it it means that existing code doesn't serve your purpose - therefore you benefit from that closed source/commercial fork.

Yes, but the point is to promote forks of forks (and so on). If you close it, the branch dies there.



But then we come back to my original point that you're (GPL people) arguing for ideology (idea that being able to crate forks is intrinsically valuable) and i'm arguing that copyleft means less forks in the first place and that a closed source fork is better than no fork.




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