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While parent post may be overstating , GPL does hinder software adoption now days.
by zaro 10y ago
While parent post may be overstating , GPL does hinder software adoption now days.
- wbl 10y agoWhy? Users can still use it, programmers might not be able to make proprietary forks of it, but can certainly write programs to interoperate with it.
- zaro 10y agoWell, it is not so much about the forks I think. A lot of the software now days is just a building brick you use to build something bigger. And the problem with the GPL licensed bricks is that you can use them only with GPL bricks. And I am talking about the code reuse as a whole not just the libraries. Or let's take a look at it from another angle.. Whatever licenses you choose to use in the end is about the community of the project, and GPL is firmly in the "If you are not with us, you are against us" domain, which community wise works only if there is big boogey man. And there used to be one. But now days most of the biggest companies do open source, so it is not so clear who is the boogey man, and whom is GPL protecting us from :)
- zxcvcxz 10y agoWhen I hear "GPL" I get an instant software arousal so I disagree.