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This is why Copyleft exists.
by holri 10y ago
This is why Copyleft exists.
- Aldo_MX 10y agoThat's what the theory says, but in practice you get a net loss since entities like Apple and the FSF will never stand on the other's ground effectively resulting in a deadlock.
- danieldk 10y agoExcept that in a cloud world, you can run modified GPL'ed software on your server and not release a single bit, since you are not redistributing the software. (The AGPL being the exception here.)
- sneak 10y agoHas the AGPL ever been tested in court?
- pjmlp 10y agoThis is why companies like Apple and Google are ditching all projects that they can from their products, e.g. GCC is on the way out on Android NDK and Fuschia/Magenta almost doesn't have any (L)GPL related components. Also why so many companies are happily making web apps, with everything behind server walls.
- ue_ 10y ago>Also why so many companies are happily making web apps, with everything behind server walls. Which is why the AGPL exists. I would rather have few people use my software than have it used as part of a distribution that is sold for profit by an organisation making use of extracted surplus value.
- kartickv 10y agoWhat a negative attitude. You seem more interested in preventing others from benefiting than anything else. I wouldn't have used the phrase "extracted value" because, unlike coal, using it doesn't deplete it. The world isn't zero-sum.
- pjmlp 10y agoAGPL doesn't matter because unless someone that works for the company comes public and denounces the situation, there are very little chances to know how the server stack actually looks like.
- epistasis 10y agoNo, that's not true. Copyleft does nothing to prevent others from selling copyleft code.