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No more so than the BSD/MIT/Apache licenses. The BSD license predates the GPL. And has none of the dead weight or baggage.
by X86BSD 9y ago
No 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.