This is sort of an interesting counterpoint to the whole "Open source forsters innovation" meme open source types love to throw out.
I may be missing something, but it seems to be fostering innovation in this example as well. He has managed to create something that at least a few people consider innovative, thanks in part to the open licenses of the sources this work is built on, and he is free to distribute it however he likes.
Or are you arguing that it's not innovation unless some other group can be forced to take up work on your behalf, by merging and/or maintaining code they don't want or agree with?
I may be missing something, but it seems to be fostering innovation in this example as well. He has managed to create something that at least a few people consider innovative, thanks in part to the open licenses of the sources this work is built on, and he is free to distribute it however he likes.
Or are you arguing that it's not innovation unless some other group can be forced to take up work on your behalf, by merging and/or maintaining code they don't want or agree with?