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So these aren't accidental consequences of provisions meant to address some other issue. These are specifically designed to attack GPL and other copy-left lice
by tux1968 8y ago
So these aren't accidental consequences of provisions meant to address some other issue. These are specifically designed to attack GPL and other copy-left licenses.
- Myrmornis 8y agoWho is behind this antipathy to copyleft? I wasn’t aware it was on the radar of the sorts of entities involved in writing international trade agreements.
- dragonwriter 8y agoThey seem on the surface to be designed to attack “source code as a condition of import license” laws,
- zmmmmm 8y agoThe original intent was inspired (I think) by countries like China demanding the source code to Windows as a condition of it use in their country. GPL is just collateral damage due to (a) politicians being almost completely ignorant about everything technological, and (b) the whole thing being negotiated in secret with no input. When you put (a) and (b) together, it seems like a miracle if the whole thing is not a disaster.