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Would you care to elaborate on what you believe makes the GPL a non-FOSS license?
by finnn 9y ago
Would you care to elaborate on what you believe makes the GPL a non-FOSS license?
- bri3d 9y agoIt definitely limits the freedom of both the author and user, by restricting the means in which the software may be distributed and the limiting author's right to add additional restrictions (the "all distributions must adhere to these restrictions but can't add more" clause which makes it incompatible with the Apple App Store, for example). It's "Free" in the Free Software Foundation sense but not really in the way some people think of "freedom."
- fgonzag 9y agoIt limits the freedom of the author yes. It severely expands the freedom of the user. That is the whole point of the license, any user has the code available to modify, inspect, or audit himself. I don't see how you think that it limits the freedom of the user too.
- Avamander 9y agoI think you don't know what GPL is intended for. It's to give the USER the four basic freedoms, not the dev, not the author, the user.