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I see it akin to "if you want to be in this country you have to follow our religion". Some people will choose other countries, some people will convert to your
by franciscop 10y ago
I see it akin to "if you want to be in this country you have to follow our religion". Some people will choose other countries, some people will convert to your religion, and some people will move and keep their religion in an illegal way.
With GPL it is similar in the way that it doesn't matter the license that you want to use but you have to use GPL. You can sometimes just not use GPL, but other times your only real options are to be forced to change your project license or to break the rules (neither of which is good IMO). Of course you have to follow the rules for any license, but other licenses are more permisive in the way that you can use the software with whatever license you want.
- _jal 10y ago> I see it akin to "if you want to be in this country you have to follow our religion". But that is every license, aside from a few experimental/performance art ones. If you want to use others' code, you have to go through the motions of code's license's religion. I find it noteworthy that people only use the word 'religious' about the GPL. Not Microsoft's terms, which are massively more restrictive and not the weird ones that actually do get slightly religious (Artistic License). Something about heathens and heretics, I guess.
- franciscop 10y agoWell those licenses would be more in the ambit of a cult than of a religion if we go with this analogy (; With MIT for example it's more like "you can come to our country and keep your religion, just don't say our religion doesn't exist (keep the original notice intact)". About religion, it's just one random topic and it probably was a bad idea to use it as a comparison since it does have a negative connotation for some people. I didn't mean at all like the negative side of religion and apologize if it sounded like that.