I agree this is the case for Linux kernel, for example.
But I don't know if it applies to entire ecosystem.
> Yes, that's the whole point of open source?
I think it's a gross oversimplification. For some reason there is not much code in public ___domain.
People do want different things in exchange for their work. Hence different licenses. Some want to receive credit for their work, some want to enrich the opensource ecosystem, make it more sustainable. Which brings me to my final point.
> are from employees on their paid corporate time to begin with
It's natural for companies to open their code under permissive licenses. Very often such code is just a first free sample of whatever they are selling: consulting services, a SaaS, etc.. So it makes sense to have an attitude "do whatever with the code, just please-please-please use it".
For an individual developer working on a one-man project the incentives structure can't be similar to one of a company. Hence my trouble understating why people pick MIT/Apache/BSD for their projects.
How did you count?
> most popular libraries
How did you measure?
I agree this is the case for Linux kernel, for example. But I don't know if it applies to entire ecosystem.
> Yes, that's the whole point of open source?
I think it's a gross oversimplification. For some reason there is not much code in public ___domain.
People do want different things in exchange for their work. Hence different licenses. Some want to receive credit for their work, some want to enrich the opensource ecosystem, make it more sustainable. Which brings me to my final point.
> are from employees on their paid corporate time to begin with
It's natural for companies to open their code under permissive licenses. Very often such code is just a first free sample of whatever they are selling: consulting services, a SaaS, etc.. So it makes sense to have an attitude "do whatever with the code, just please-please-please use it".
For an individual developer working on a one-man project the incentives structure can't be similar to one of a company. Hence my trouble understating why people pick MIT/Apache/BSD for their projects.