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> Hopefully over time rather than having everyone choose their own licenses we end up with some form of standardisation. Yes; if you're going to do this, then using AGPL is so much better than flavor-of-the-week license. > If the core companies maintaining them did not do this they would eventually die and these projects would slowly rot. It sounds like you're suggesting that anything but hard-copyleft is doomed to d…
Postgres looks like the only interesting entry here. K8s and Android have a major corporation backing them, which extracts value from them in its internal operation anyway. They are such products that using them by competition commoditizes said competition. Android on like 95% of phones outside China has very important proprietary parts, making it hardly compatible with a bunch of top-tier apps. BSD OSes don't do exc…
All of the Apache projects (some to more/less an extant than others).
Most programming language implementations (e.g. CPython). Memcached. WireGuard. SQLAlchemy. Web Frameworks like Flask, Django, Rails, on and on.
There are many open source technologies that do not seek to capture the value they create with licensing hijinks.
I don’t think it’s an accident, that the ones that persist across generations are generally not structured as VC-backed firms, who care a great deal more about “value capture” than the average programmer capable of building such foundational systems. Usually “value capture” is correlated with “consumer harm”, and so they’re replaced over time.
From your example, K8s will definitely outlive Google. Hard to say about Android.