Deimos X11 bindings license question

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 5 September 2017 at 22:25:57 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> If you go with a BSD or Boost license, you're maximizing who 
> can use your software, but you have no guarantees that any 
> improvements will be made available, whereas the (L)GPL does 
> guarantee that those improvements will be made available 
> (assuming that folks behave themselves and follow the license 
> anyway), but that means that there are a lot of projects that 
> can't use your software, because those restrictions are 
> unacceptable to those developing it.

I'll also note that if a developer uses GPL software on the 
server, he doesn't have to give any source to users who access 
apps on the server remotely.  For example, Google uses a linux 
kernel with proprietary modifications on a million servers 
running their search engine, yet my understanding is that they 
have not made most of those modifications available, as they're 
not required to under the GPL.  By contrast, every Android vendor 
has to release the source for their linux kernel.  It's not a 
coincidence that GPL software took off on the sever, until and 
except for Android's kernel.

That's why some devs then came up with the Affero GPL, to close 
the server loophole, though it hasn't been used for linux:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License