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And yet, the GPL has been absolutely critical in establishing free software as a credible player, so I'd disagree with you on the license being stupid.
by AsyncAwait 9y ago
And yet, the GPL has been absolutely critical in establishing free software as a credible player, so I'd disagree with you on the license being stupid.
- X86BSD 9y agoNo more so than the BSD/MIT/Apache licenses. The BSD license predates the GPL. And has none of the dead weight or baggage.
- AsyncAwait 9y ago> The BSD license predates the GPL And the BSDs predate Linux. Yet Linux distros are the most popular free software OSes out there. I did not say the GPL invented open-source, but I don't think you can deny that it was the force to move it from obscurity, at least at the beginning.