Timeline for Are there examples of proprietary software that functionally depends on free software?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 13:00 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://opensource.stackexchange.com/ with https://opensource.stackexchange.com/ | |
| S Aug 11, 2015 at 0:18 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Aug 11, 2015 at 0:18 | comment | added | Zizouz212 | Comments are for constructive criticism and feedback, not extended discussion and linked answers; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 9:49 | history | edited | Free Radical | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Link to new question. |
| Jul 31, 2015 at 22:17 | answer | added | Zizouz212 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 6:20 | vote | accept | Free Radical | ||
| Jul 19, 2015 at 22:41 | comment | added | Abhi Beckert | There are commercial products (I'd rather not name them) that use some of the code I've released under permissive licenses. They usually shoot me an email asking permission and I usually reply with "you don't need to ask me for permission, go ahead and do it". One of them also offered to pay me an hourly rate to integrate my code into theirs, but it didn't work out and they ended up doing this work rather than hiring me. A lot of his work ended up being contributed back to our code base, many bugs and performance bottlenecks fixed. Win. | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 16:02 | answer | added | Stephen Kitt | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 15:39 | comment | added | Free Radical | @StephenKitt. I am actually very interested in both. I know about Linux being used as platform for proprietary software, but would really like to see answers pointing out why this is not considered infringing use (see edited question). I don't know much about Steam, but if it "proprietary software linked to open source libraries", I am very interested in hearing more about it. | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 15:36 | history | edited | Free Radical | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 342 characters in body; edited title |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 15:29 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | I take it "proprietary software linked to open source libraries" (e.g. Steam) or "proprietary software running on an open source kernel" (anything running on Linux or the BSDs or...) doesn't answer your question; if so, could you clarify what more you're looking for? | |
| Jul 18, 2015 at 15:21 | history | asked | Free Radical | CC BY-SA 3.0 |