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How is that a GPLv3 issue? You think the companies would prefer v2? But anyways, how does that deny companies access any more than simply using a proprietary l
by EdHominem 10y ago
How is that a GPLv3 issue? You think the companies would prefer v2?
But anyways, how does that deny companies access any more than simply using a proprietary license in the first place? You're already denied access to 99.9% of code written because it isn't publicly licensed at all.
- bluejekyll 10y agoIts internal legal departments of large companies (and some medium sized ones). They tend to be most highly concerned with the patent provisions in GPLv3, and yes, GPLv2 is much more palatable, though I've often seen requirements that the code is not contributed to. The denial is not from the GPL it's from the corporate legal team. This is a big reason why the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses are much more popular among tech companies with private codebases (in addition to the Open Source code that they release).