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> But a proprietary fork doesn't change anything for permissively-licenced projects either!

It just mostly makes them irrelevant by EEE. A permissive license is simply asking for it.

This is true in the short-term. One of the points of the article is that, long-term, proprietary forks are prone to enshittification and/or abandonment, while the open fork just keeps chugging along, maturing, and changing maintainers

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