Yeah I've always written this off as a fun side project for a group of people but after seeing consistent updates and improvements over the last several years I've been so impressed by how far this project has been going.
Linux didn't win because it was GPL'd, it won because it was the only real alternative back in '92. The BSDs were all caught up in the moronic SCO lawsuits of the time, otherwise we'd all be using FreeBSD or some other 386BSD variant today instead of Linux. The GPL was a nice bonus but it isn't the real secret sauce that has powered Linux's growth, it was mostly good timing.
That doesn't mean that I'd rather see some form of copyleft in place (like the MPLv2) or at least a licence with some kind of patent protection baked in (like the Apache 2.0), the X11/MIT licences are extremely weak against patent trolls
None of the competition on the embedded space of FOSS operating systems, including Linux Foundation Zephyr, makes use of GPL.
Unfortunely the license is seen as tainted by all businesses, and plenty of OSes are already seen as Linux alternative in some spaces.
In others Android is the only being used, where the only thing left from GPL is the Linux kernel itself, and only because Fuchsia kind of went nowhere, besides some kitchen devices.
Fuchsia is literally a Google project to avoid using Linux.
Look at their other "Open Source" projects like Android to understand why they would want to ensure they would avoid GPL code. It's all about control, and appearances of OS through gaslighting by source available.
samtheDamned|5 months ago
edoceo|5 months ago
I admire these projects & the teams for their tenacity.
Four bells! Damn the torpedoes.
snvzz|5 months ago
0. https://genode.org/
Rochus|5 months ago
wraptile|5 months ago
qalmakka|5 months ago
That doesn't mean that I'd rather see some form of copyleft in place (like the MPLv2) or at least a licence with some kind of patent protection baked in (like the Apache 2.0), the X11/MIT licences are extremely weak against patent trolls
bigstrat2003|5 months ago
pjmlp|5 months ago
Unfortunely the license is seen as tainted by all businesses, and plenty of OSes are already seen as Linux alternative in some spaces.
In others Android is the only being used, where the only thing left from GPL is the Linux kernel itself, and only because Fuchsia kind of went nowhere, besides some kitchen devices.
NewJazz|5 months ago
stevefan1999|5 months ago
happymellon|5 months ago
Look at their other "Open Source" projects like Android to understand why they would want to ensure they would avoid GPL code. It's all about control, and appearances of OS through gaslighting by source available.
dardeaup|5 months ago