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I think he was under the impression that using the GPL (instead of a BSD license) would avoid commercial forks. Personally I don't care, Gentleman doesn't care
by apathy 10y ago
I think he was under the impression that using the GPL (instead of a BSD license) would avoid commercial forks. Personally I don't care, Gentleman doesn't care, and the Revolution people (some at least) are pretty good guys.
But leading with the above would be shitty click bait }:-)
- jordigh 10y agoThey would avoid proprietary forks (not commercial, that's not the same thing) if they actually defended the damn GPL. Instead, they kept weakening it, kept trying to change the API from GPL to LGPL (and I think they actually did it) and encouraged non-free plugins on CRAN. The license will need to a better job of protecting work donated to the commons than GPL2 seems to have done. https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/simply-start-over-and-build-something-better/ https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/simply-start-over-... The license is fine, the problem is that they didn't actually use it correctly! Well, this is what happens.
- apathy 10y agoYeah, but on the other hand the resulting project has happily eaten research statistics. It's not all bad.