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dabockster | 2 months ago

> This is the best kind of open source trickledown.

We shouldn't be depending on trickledown anything. It's nice to see Valve contributing back, but we all need to remember that they can totally evaporate/vanish behind proprietary licensing at any time.

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dymk|2 months ago

They have to abide by the Wine license, which is basically GPL, so unless they’re going to make their own from scratch, they can’t make the bread and butter of their compat layer proprietary

nextaccountic|2 months ago

That's why the anti-GPL push is so harmful. Specially in the Rust ecosystem

stavros|2 months ago

How? It's GPL.

jact|2 months ago

Can it vanish behind proprietary licensing? Pretty sure most of Valve’s stuff is under GPL so they can’t exactly evaporate that away.