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I'm actually saddened that things like tmux and zsh are under weak licenses. The GPL is a license designed to maintain users freedom, and the authors of many pr
by cyphar 10y ago
I'm actually saddened that things like tmux and zsh are under weak licenses. The GPL is a license designed to maintain users freedom, and the authors of many programs seem to not care enough about that anymore. It's almost as though they don't realise what an innovative license the GPL was and still is.
- digi_owl 10y agoAs with many tings i think you need to experience the bad side directly before you come to appreciate the good side. Without it you do not have the mental yardstick to evaluate things properly.
- cyphar 10y agoYou mean write proprietary software? I refuse to do that. To be fair, I have contributed code to Apache licensed projects (and in fact I maintain one). It still annoys me that it's not GPL licensed (the annoyance doesn't go the other way around for me, I am not annoyed when a project is GPL licensed).
- digi_owl 10y agoI was pointing to a more general pattern. Right now the world seem poised to enter another major war. This i attribute to the generation of politicians holding the reins has not experienced full scale war up front and personally. Similarly, one has to experience the depths of proprietary lock-in to be really able to grasp what is being attempted with the GPL.