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> Despite the rhetoric about "freedom" the GPL is a huge disincentive for developers to participate. The "freedom" references from GNU are with respect to the
by willtim 8y ago
> Despite the rhetoric about "freedom" the GPL is a huge disincentive for developers to participate.
The "freedom" references from GNU are with respect to the users of the software, not necessarily to any entity that may participate.
It's perfectly possible for a proprietary closed-source product to leverage code from a BSD/MIT project to remove user freedoms.