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- Embed this notice@lanodan >what do you think is going to happen to me or even the wider FOSS community if there's a proprietary version of it?
GNU/Jihad against "FOSS"!!!
You would have written proprietary software without getting paid and aided and abetted a freedom thief to cause people to lose part of their freedom (which could possibly even blow back onto you), which isn't "absolutely nothing".
>copyleft licences can also end up a complete net-negative, for example due to incompatibilities.
License incompatibilities are always intentionally caused by those who make the explicit choice to make an incompatibility by licensing say GPLv2-only or GPLv3-only, or by making a terrible license choice like selecting the CDDLv1 instead one of the many better compatible licenses that have been available for decades.
The GPLv3 has been a thing for 17+ years now, yet people can't help but to be incompatible with it.
Even license-incompatibilities aren't a negative, as the software itself always remains free, although certain positive things may not be possible unless external developers start licensing properly.