Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://todon.nl/@burnoutqueen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>burnoutqueen</span></a></span> the problem is that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/enforcing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enforcing</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/copyleft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyleft</span></a> doesn't get you a single line of code improvements.</p><ul><li>Ask <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.jp/@landley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>landley</span></a></span> and his successor(s) that are now maintaining <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BusyBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BusyBox</span></a>. </li></ul><p>In an ideal world it would, but we all know that's not the case.</p><ul><li>Consider <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a>-licensed alternatives a competiton, which is more likely to get contributions back (again, Rob Landley can most likely attest to that) from corporations and see it as a motivation for copyleft-licensed projects to <em>step up their game</em>!</li></ul>