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Is that a side effect or the main effect? Hardware makers wanted to exercise the right to use open source software without returning that right to the people w

Is that a side effect or the main effect? Hardware makers wanted to exercise the right to use open source software without returning that right to the people who bought their products from them. GPLv3 was designed to remove the loophole that allowed them to do that. It's true that GPL has more restrictions than BSD or MIT. But the freedom those licenses give is the freedom to steal without giving back.

int_19h 10y ago
It's not stealing if you explicitly allow them to take it, as is the case with BSD and MIT licenses.
X86BSD 10y ago
You can't steal what is freely given away! I hate when people claim using BSD licensed code is stealing. It's not just a lie, it's a total perversion of freedom itself.