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Could you provide some examples when that had happened?
I'm looking up famous projects using mit license and in any of those that had happened.
Lua, node.js, jQuery....
Even X11 which was indeed replaced by other system.... Wyland, which also uses MIT license.
Programming languages and other developer tools are very much less affected by this, since being open source is mostly a requirement for a programming language in most people's eyes. I wouldn't even learn a proprietary programming language when there are open ones. Being proprietary make it lose its appeal very much.
About peoprietary X11 and wayland... For whom are companies making them for? Linux users? Do you think any distro will switch to it? But i'm pretty sure most companues copy parts of code from such projects to use in theirs.
I gave Aosp- Vendor Android and chrome-chromium as examples in the beggining. Also if only linux kernel was GPLv3, android would be way more proprietary bloat free.
Unfortunately companies have even done this exact same thing even with GPL, illegally, and got away with it because open source devs usually can't bother to file lawsuits to companies in another country