Are implicit dual-licensing agreements inherently anti-open?

[Alex Bligh]

--On 22 July 2005 14:04 -0700 Michael Bernstein <webmaven at cox.net> wrote:

>> Note, as per my earlier post, the REAL solution here is to make sure
>> that it's not in the ID's interest to play badly.
>
> The GPL and other reciprocal licenses manage this quite handily.

Yes. That doesn't mean others can't

>> Someone (and if
>> it was you, sorry) pointed out that contributors can make code hard
>> to merge. They can also cease contributing. They can also fork. All
>> these things and more will happen if an ID doesn't play ball.
>
> But making it hard to merge or forking doesn't stop the ID from becoming
> a complete freeloader on the community

What would they freeload on if code was not contributed or impossible
to merge?

Alex