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I don't see a problem. If someone forks it and changes the license to some proprietary, then their fork is proprietary. The original software is still Open Source. People act like as if the original license changed.
And it the fork gets adapted the user base doesn't use an open source project anymore. Changes which aren't synced get shipped and you can't substitute anymore.
Permissive licenses are bad: Someone can take your entire code, build upon it, get hand of the userbase and then make weird changes. They don't protect the users in any form.
Just imagine someone changed the tools you use daily in such a way that none of your workflows are executed in the same way prior.
You just learn this once you are truly affected. And trust me - This sucks hard.
Right, but the other fork became its own project. I have no problem with it. As long as the original code license is not changed.
Good luck picking another license than GPL for this requirement.